Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

No matter how dark your current phase of life is, never stop believing that bigger and better blessings are already on the way.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

Which [the cyber hacking] is why one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.