[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

Thomas Brackett Reed

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

Devon Sawa

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Richard Dawkins

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

John Hodgman

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Gordon Graham

I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I keptlocking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 footstepladder with a coathanger.

Steven Wright

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Elbert Hubbard

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Carol Kane

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

Libba Bray