"Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight."

“We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.”

“Who laughs less than feminists?”

Source : "Crossfire" with Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. May 26, 2004.

“I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!”

“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”

“I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.”

Source : "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". Interview with Hanuu Haukka. Translation by Alexei Salapatov, www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

“I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.”

“Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.”

Source : J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group

“It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.”

Source : Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”