I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.

The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be.

I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

Haters and bullies are always cowards you know. They like to pick on little guys.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.