There’s a difference between thinking you can’t be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more...

You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most...

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning ’causeOur art’s official and only partially artificialAnd our heart’s in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere’s not where it settlesBecause it’s...

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

As I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the light of day away to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do...

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

If you’re capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the...

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest...

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

When you aren’t satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn’t need to complain.

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier – he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim...

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn’t sin but wants to sin.

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories,...

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace –...

When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There’s no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for...

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one’s conscience both clear and...

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man’s biography regarding God’s promised experiences and truth for him – his individual, unique...

Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a ‘what’ created the universe; the theist believes a ‘who’ created the universe.

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see ‘the positive person’ or ‘the negative person’ in such a black and white way as many people do....

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper…

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.