Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.