Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.

Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

Once I hit 25, people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone, as if my life was somehow over because I hadn't yet settled into their version of happiness.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.