I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common
God is only where you let Him in.
People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.
There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.
Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!
One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.
Peace without truth is a false peace.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.
The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.