The goal of art-making in general is communication.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

celebrate your happiness in limit so others not feel abashment.

Don't agree and believe that success comes free... Gold on the floor is a lie! You must dig deep and then you will reap big!

There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.