Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult."The intolerable burden of thought.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.