Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity