If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

There's more to Life than this

Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

The world is a dangerous place. And it's a more dangerous place than it was seven years ago [before Obama].

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.