As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

You should always trust the instincts of children.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

The fate of the nation and the fate of the currency are one and the same.

My comedy is for adults, but you can have your kids listen to it. They won't get all the jokes because hopefully I'm more cerebral than a 10-year-old... but if you ask my wife, I'm not!

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.