"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me."

"A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."