The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.

Give yourself permission to Risk. It is only in risk that one finds success.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.