When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty.

Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion.

He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

The night is the blink of a day

She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.