“I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”

“There's only one thing more important… and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.”

“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”

“I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.”

“… I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.”

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people… Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

“Why don't I have enough money? The answer is obvious. Money is how people are measured. What you are worth is what you are worth. The reason I am not worth very much is because I am not worth very much. Nothing could be simpler.”

“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”