But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.