When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

Never stop dreaming, wake up and chase your dreams.

Southern DADDY—Dandy At Doin’ Diapers Y’all!

A rose's prick is better than a daisy's kiss.

A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

Drinking all day Big chiefing at night I keep my eyes red and tight So that my teeth can look white

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes.

If you look at someone like Kim Coates, you realize that he's been in everything.