Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

Every country has its sacred culture.

When we wallow in anxiety and doubts, we subject ourselves to fear. When we focus on the greatness of God, we make fear subject to faith.

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Marshall McLuhan prediction was some kind of electronic communication technology would emerge to instantaneously connect the world so much so that the whole globe would be like a village.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.