... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

Each to their own reality

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.

What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.