Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Don't come to God because you have a problem

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.