If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two he replies four loaves.

An arch never sleeps.

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith even so is he.

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

True happiness consists in making others happy.

Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

No one is poor who has an abundance of love to share with others.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

Women love energy and grand results.

I will never say a bad word about 'One Tree Hill'. The entire shape of my world changed because of that show, so I'll always be very affectionate toward it.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.