J. J. Wall Quotes

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.

Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

No matter what there always seems to be something clouding my existence, nothing is ever clear.

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.

My wife and I just celebrated our twelfth anniversary. I'm Catholic so there's no real possibility of divorce. I'm Irish - so there is the possibility of murder.

It was like the beginning of the end of the world.

What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked, ” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.