Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.