Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner, " than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Once I had her hand, I never wanted to let go of her.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?

Regulations force people to do better.

The nerds are running the world now.

As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.