You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.

We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.

When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.

Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take.

Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.

If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

I've been really lucky. People have been nice to me on the internet. That's the reason why I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

Her sunny side was always up.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.