Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

It is better to trust and lose occasionally than always be suspicious and lose every time.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.