He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.