Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Disasters teach us humility.

I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.

In this life, you don't have to prove nothing to nobody but yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.

No matter what size I am I love performing no matter how big or little I am! I feel good.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

It is a sisters job to annoy her brother no matter how old they are.

A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead of myself. I can't wait to thank him at the Oscars.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

My coming out was just so boring.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

I never talk about shooting anybody, but I do acknowledge I was a member of the IRA, and as a member of the IRA, I obviously engaged in fighting back against the British army.

Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

On the web, we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.

Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.