What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

Jesus changes everything about a person’s life, from the obvious to the unseen. He shatters black and white into brilliant color and shakes the asleep until they’re wide awake.

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

Are we letting the world influence the church more than the church is affecting those in the world?

Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.

The divine pattern is your life purpose. It is a story about your divine self and it is written within—your heart

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.