Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.

Negative words have a way of permeating our system and making themselves comfortable in our sub-conscious.

In all the flames of fire fume’s left the traceInto the bluest sea the sky is drownedThe miracles of life can you embraceFrom the poem 'Can You Embrace?

You are a creative expression of the universe. You are worthy.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.