The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.