Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

There is no condition for forgiveness.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.