Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.

In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

I am on a thirty day diet.So far, I have lost 15 days.

Continuing a short series on forgiveness: "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.

To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".

It is not what's right about war, it's about what's left.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.