To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.

In the same way humans have domesticated sheep and other animals by murdering the strong ones and breeding the docile, obedient ones, the powers-that-be have done the same with the masses.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.