To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.
The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.