Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.