It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

And where love ends, hate begins

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.