“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

America is like a dog. I’m sorry, but it is. It cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can’t actually explain issues to a dog.

I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.

I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.

Art can exist without explanation, so why must we understand the complexities of life to fully live it.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we’re coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.