Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?

By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

Thinking based on who deserves what blocks compassionate communication.

John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!

A little integrity is better than any career.

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.