An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

Born to fight. Learn to win. Live to help.

Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers.

A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.