Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.