Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.

I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it's probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.