Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

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

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.