“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.

God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.

Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you’re gonna watch, it’s scary.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

It won’t be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

I’m not just talking about what you put on a record – even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.

I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.