Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If you don't it could lead you in the wrong direction.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.