The first reaction to truth is hatred.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

I was madly in love with life.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.