“It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn’t they?”

“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”

“I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.”

“Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.”

“Be open to others, and you will find god in your heart.”

“What do you believe in?” asked David.“I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god isas empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their goodfortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, theysay only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to hiswill. What kind of god is that?”

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

“It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.”

“You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.”

“There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.”

“All you know is what you think you know, but that isn’t always what’s real.”

“If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it.”

“An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.”