Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

The visual of Satan isn’t one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it’s the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.

Maybe the new me will be different.

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.