"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes."

"I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it."

"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."