"Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker."

“The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!”

Source : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.

“We tend to find what we look for in other people.”

“Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.”

“A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words”

“I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.”

“The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.”

“Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.”

“The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.”