One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.
The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.
There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life.
Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and the narrow, exclusivist understanding of hell [that unless you explicitly accept and follow Jesus, you are excluded from eternal life with God and destined for hell].
Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.