Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.