Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

God tells you where to look

It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.