“Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.”

“Faith is the ability to endure.”

“Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.”

“We are not strangers. Its a lack of trust that keeps us separated.”

“Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.”

“The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”