All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.