One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Good deeds are seeds of generosity.

I had a dream about you last night... in it, we wondered why dogs come in packs but you can't pack dogs.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

Well, everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana, and Columbus will always be home.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you'll never smile again.