I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

Freedom is never very safe.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.