Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

It was a dark story.

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener.

Why were you watching me change?" I explain. "Uh, 'cause I'm a guy?" He flips the pillow and slaps it, fluffing it. Then he rolls over and closes his eyes again.

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is.

I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.