Alan McCluskey“Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.