Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Without Satan, no Christ.

Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.

Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn.

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

Some people use the sexual energy particularly during intercourse to take personal power from each other.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.