Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is beliefthat sustains thought and holds the world together.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.

I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through.

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.