“There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.”

“To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.”

“Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.”

“Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!”

“Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”

“The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or — if they think there is not — at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.”

“You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.”