People can cry much easier than they can change.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Every new day brings new adoration and new adventure.

Jehovah chose to do great things through me. I lay my life in total humility never to take the Glory that comes from doing His great work… It all belongs to Him

I come from a football family which has really helped.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

There can be no revival apart from the Holy Ghost; He is the author of every Heaven-sent movement.

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

To say a prayer is not enough. One has to believe that it's possible for that prayer to be heard.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.