I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God’s enemy.
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 his very nature is already offensive enough.
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
God’s relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
We men are fascinated by the things we don’t really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
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.
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations – they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone.
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.
Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who’s swell.