I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.
Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.
One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.
The tears that fall from the eyes of a truthful Believer, out of the fear of the Lord, and, then, roll down his face, however little they are, even of the size of a fly [i. e. just one drop], shall prevent the Fire of Hell from touching his face.
Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.
To pursue knowledge is obligatory on every believing man and woman.
There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.
The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.
I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.
Sin is in, and so we begin.
My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another perspective, I had really no artist role models to fall under. No guidance in terms of intellect. In terms of not having to relate to a physical persona to get through. I wanted to relate, combine the physical personal, combine the machismo with intellect, with intelligence, with craftsmanship, with creating works that people would just look at and their jaws would just drop open, and "Wow! This is like incredible work!"