Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm, ” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.

Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together?

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Whenever we make the choice to bring fear into the light with truth-seeking questions, we shall find soul-growing answers.

It takes compassion to truly understand another person.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.