The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.

We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.