They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

I can't promise to take away your loneliness, but I can promise to be there when you need me the most.

Every moment, every second, every hour and every day, be in love by becoming love. There is nothing else.

...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone.Strange that a harp of thousand stringsShould keep in tune so long.

Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.