You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.