“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

I believe that if you tell me I am enough, I am enough.

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.