The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

Dear Lord please show me what really matters so that I may be able to determine what is distraction and God's direction in my life.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

I like triples-when I hit a ball in the gap, all I think about is a triple.

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

All I need to know I learned from my cat.