If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high.

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media’s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don’t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.