Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

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.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.

I wish I could say I am a rebel for love in real life. I don't think I am so cool.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.