Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

If you wish for pearls, pray always.

There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom

Don't forget to enjoy the winter, but never give up hopes for the spring.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.

Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.