Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Moments give birth to new memories

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience.

Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.