Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
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.
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
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