Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

If I wanted to make over my image, I could have given 10,000 interviews in the last 10 years. I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.

A deep distress has humanised my soul.