He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.

You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul.

Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.

He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered

When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve.

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!