A balance, I think, is needed, " Dr. Templeton said judiciously, "between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

The dead do not hurt you

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

I almost feel like I'm still in a molding stage so the feedback and response not only inspires me but guides me in a certain direction as well.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.