The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

You can love someone you mistrust.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.