All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.

Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.

Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.