All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future, " he said.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.

The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

One of the surest ways to live a life that's full of disappointments, is to expect people to be perfect.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

Miracles do happen, but you have to work hard at them.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.