If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

The only people that should be in your life are ones that make you smile.

Become grounded in the Bible. As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

Belief in limitation is the one and only thing that causes limitation.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.