True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.

A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.

Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading.

You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.