The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.

Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.

All this is what it means to regret.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

You know, ISIS, their [Vatican] primary trophy. Very few people know this. Nobody even believed it.

The word "conviction" means to expose.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

What's important is that my family and I are all good.