"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."

"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"Girls are more attractive to me than dresses."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever."

"The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts."