The height of cleverness is in one’s ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they’re the ones doing the judging.
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.
Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.
The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
A wise man’s goal shouldn’t be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil’s advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.