The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.