“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Meaning and morality of one’s life come from within oneself.

Women make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

I believed less is what I needed, what I tried to achieve; I thought less is more, better, the minimalistic beauty of life.

I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.

Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

When I lost hope, hope came and found me, when I stopped believing in faith, faith believed in me.