Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!