What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.