The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.

Persecuting Christians because of Jesus Christ is like a man who goes after the children of his enemy because he is indeed afraid of his enemy. Matthew 24:9

You are a painter of success. Paint your life into a masterpiece of excellence.

The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.

Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.

If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.

You are not your thoughts, and you are not the product of your thoughts.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.