Posterity will pay everyone their due.
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.
I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying. "
Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could've been good. There's an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you can't, it doesn't matter how skilful you are.
Be a scientist, save the world.
In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.