To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Shall I compare thee to a barrel of apples?Though art more hairy, but sweeter inside.Rough winds couldn't keep me from taking you to chapel, Where finally a horse could take a bride...

That which you manifest is before you.The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

The fact is, we need help, and we need each other.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Already the scent of victory is in the air.