I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.

I'm just getting older and I'm understanding the game and I'm more experienced in the league.

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

I saw my father preach in Madison Square Garden, and I was a little embarrassed, I think, the first time I heard him preach. That's my father up there, and I kind of slid down in my chair.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.