It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always matters who wins.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.

My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be treated as if they are not human beings

Thinking the simplest rights of Civilization to The Humanitarian !

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

It's said that Putin can't stand Hillary Clinton. I don't know that for a fact, but it certainly looks that way, but I think her approach to Russia stands up pretty well.

You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.