As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.

Having given all he had He then is very rich indeed.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

Incredibly, hackers were able to obtain at least 20 million identities of people who under FBI background and were under FBI background investigations.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.