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

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.