"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

"It is a subtle truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity."

"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions."

"The seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public."

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."

"I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness."

"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest."