Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.

For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.

Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.

People are not a threat, wrong ideas are.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me.

Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock.

Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.