The tears of God are the meaning of history

I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See

Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

The tears of God are the meaning of history.

Just hold on to your faith and always be willing to put in the hard work on your own.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.