The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

The first duty of any Christian is to know God and the wisdom of His Word to the utmost

Words are nets through which all truth escapes("News From The World")

For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it’s not going to get you respect.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

This is the forest primeval.

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.

Gratitude is the the energy of faith.