Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition to become heroes.

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.