I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Never say no when you really want to say yes.

I want the world, I think. Even if it scares me.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.