I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.

The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.

Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.