Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I create stars.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

To create something you must be something.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‚convulsions of nature,‘ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 – for albums, anyway.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.