All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Respecting requests, rules and privacy is a universal law. You break that basic etiquette 101, you're seriously flawed.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

We want to demystify the rocket science and break it down for people so they can understand what is really going on and what the real opportunities are.

God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.

You ever notice that everyone who believes in creationism looks really un-evolved?

Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.

With my kids I have to get involved in the Scooby Doo games and the basic kid games that go on. I find myself getting on it more and more just because of my kids.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.