The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?

In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s.

Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.