Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

I let giving fill me with joy.

Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen.

A small step toward recovery is giant progress.

I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

This is why Jessica Biel is a successful actress: because, despite the punchlines, you know how to tell a joke.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent...