What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

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 allow anyone to break your bond of love.

I may forget myself, but you I could never forget.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

Let us live while we live.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.