But in my heart, when I said “my king, ” I meant Verity.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!

Eyes, so easily deceived, might judge more rightly with lids closed, allowing ears and heart to remain wide open."from "The Beauty of Ugh

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.