The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Our fellowship with people brings us closer to the Kingdom

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.