You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.