It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.