The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

They, who continue to stay turned to watch their past mistakes, will miss the potential successes of the future.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen.

Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.