It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

My name is CHL. That's Charles Haas Layfield.

A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.

It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

Humans can think inhuman thoughts.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!