But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.

A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.