A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

He who does now know evil will fall into it.