Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.
The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.
It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.
The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.
Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity.
As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"
Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
Nothing's been changed overnight. It's like watching your cat grow: you see it every day, so you don't really see it change, you wake up one day and it's a bloody great thing. Your friends come round who you haven't seen for a couple months and they're like, "Oh my god, your cat's grown so much again. " And I'm like, "Has it?" But when you're living it. . . I just find that my life has subtly changed bit by bit, so I don't ever really notice it too much.
Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue. . . In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.