"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."

"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there?"

"The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there."

"All American cars are basically Chevrolets."

"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end."

"God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come."

"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?"

"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses."

"God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways."