Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.

A New Year is like a new day

...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

Do I look like a Jonas Brother? Then why is everyone waiting for me to lose it?

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.