I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned. . . it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired.
No one can keep a mask on long.
True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.