Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.