All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

We can love anyone at a safe distance, but loving people in the thick of their mess takes the supernatural love of Jesus working in us.

I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.