We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans, ' and smile.

Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile.

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

Jesus' fathomless love changes how you and I will live in our moments, how we'll love in our neighborhoods, and what we'll be known for in eternity.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah.