Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

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.

It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose

As I believe—I am, I can, I know.

His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

Once you discover what your attitude is, or isn't, you'll have a starting point and an understanding of how to move forward.