The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.