Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

…if you will quit squirming about and be patient you will see that most things in life, wishes included, do not have immediate results.

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.