Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face.

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

In Jesus the performance pendulum stops — both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.

Wisdom simplifies the things

Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.