The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Learning the way of grace is about truth. It’s reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others’ infinite value—despite our depths ofbrokenness.

You don't need to be rich to have high confidence, all you do need is to be proud of yourself and there you'll go with confidence.

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.