Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Before your awake, all you do is seeWhen your awake, all you do is feel.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.