Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

Clear statement is argument.

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.

I bought a backscrabber. One more reason to have no need for a relationship.

Keep your thoughts clean. the life we are living soon be past.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.

God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.