The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

I felt like I was in charge.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

I have a lot of trouble getting turned on by girls who are turned on by celebrity.

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.