We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses

Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.

We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

There is only a single step between impurity and purity.

I will not allow anxiety dictate the terms of my life

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

you can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.