But it’s a hundred and twelve years old!” He protested.“She still works pretty good.” Deire maintained. “Stardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that’s just a dodgy plasma injector.

Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!

Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway.

If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.

Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.

You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?

Dominating others is not equality.

They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

I never quit until I get what I want.