What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

Praying without gratitude is more like complaining.

There will always be an underground.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.