The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

A woman is a foreign land.

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.