We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Set me free, let me be me, let me fly, fly high and away, let me breathe freedom...

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well.

If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.