But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

I can’t help but to wonder with my thoughts.

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.

I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

C++ is a pile of crap.