The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

Prac­tice doesn’t make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.

The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.