Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with hard work to become excellent.

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

Visualization lets you concentrate on all the positive aspects of your game.

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'

It feels better to love than to hate.