In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of...

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren’t prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don’t want to hear.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good...

You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.

You ask me why I don’t speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill’Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it’s...

I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

I’m starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw...

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world,...

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.

The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we...

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer ‘no’ time and time again, so he turns...

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort…only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the...

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no...

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the...

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because...

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.