How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

A prosperous person programmes prosperous thinking into his or her mind.

Emptiness ate away at his inside, quickly replaced by a sadness that hurt his heart.

God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?