Behind the shadows there lies defeat

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.