After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

NBC had a show called ‚The Toughest Bouncer in America‘ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‚bouncer.‘ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

I feel like I’m being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I’m upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo’s outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody’s peeping.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

I think hygiene is so important.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

When you say ‚control freak‘ and ‚OCD‘ and ‚organized,‘ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

I read the Bible every day.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.