“Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it”

“People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.”

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!”

“In a Christian culture that does not value innocense, it is no wonder our generation is often indistinguishable from the culture around it. We've simply been taught by our culture that life experience is the most valuable thing a person can have.”

“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”

“There's no such thing as old-fashioned values. There are just values. Right has always been right and wrong has always been wrong...People have just lost sight of what's truly important.”