He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God. ' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.
I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom.
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.