Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

Focus on the future and the outcomes you want, not your present setbacks or failures.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

In the NFL, everyone's attacking, so you have to be quicker in your decisions.

Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.