And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

I am not confined to the standard of society. I am breaking barriers.

Engage in the work that brings you joy.

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"