Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.