No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Only Christ could have conceived Christ.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

I am republicI am maoistI am activistand I am thisand I am thatbut why?Why can't

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.