Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.

A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop

Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Besties before testes.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don’t want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?

So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​