What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Take it and return it: the kiss of love.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.