The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.

Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.

Celebrate differences, give love, and more love. Anything short is a rigidity that cuts both ways and spawns odium and ire

The dead pull the living down.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

I've led a very eclectic life.

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.