Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.

Adversity sure does gives you trouble, but it keeps you humble.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me