When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

I'll tell you what can make bacon better... nothing.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

One day we'll look back we'll smile and we'll laugh,but right now we just cry. Cuz it's so hard to say good-bye.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.