Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

We spend all our time and energy pampering our bodies and minds, but if we ignore our souls, we will end up spiritually starved and malnourished.

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Love what is ahead by loving what has come before.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.

One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

Indulgences should never be hesitant.