Animal rage is scary, but not as scary as control.

War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.

There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.

The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.

The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.

Stories shape the world.

To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.

I do respect clever.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

Door money. It’s a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one’s existence.

Live in your dreams, not your past.

God doesn’t care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.

Time never changes—only we change. We measure the changes of our lives and think that we are measuring time. We are just measuring the movement of the earth.

So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.