“But failure and success are labels placed upon people’s lives the way a child values winning a game whether or not they have to bend the rules in order to do it. But life is not a game and the rules cannot be bent without repercussions that prove damaging later on. We must play the game for all we are worth, and we must play it fairly. We play and lose and play again, over and over. We lose and we pick up and start again a little wiser. We learn the game a little better in the playing, learn lessons for the next game. And should we lose today it is only a step towards the winning of the larger game. We move our piece on the board one step at a time, but it is all part of some larger process.”

“Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.”

“We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.”

“Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn’t say anything bad about it.”

“We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.”

“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.”

“Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.”

“If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?”

“It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.”

“There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.”

“Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.”