It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa

She loves the smell of his fur, all warm and musky and cat-spit clean.

Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.

Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

It is true that you get what you tolerate.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.