“Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.”

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.

Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.

All action is vicarious faith.

The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.

This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

By the word of God the world was created.

It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

A soul can create only when alone.

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

Most important, once we study NVC we can’t ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship – if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine!

Most people are cowards.

I’ve liked most of the films that I’ve been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.