Never trust he who trusts everyone.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.