Communists are the last optimists.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

We Christians are bound hands and feet, sitting down in the pews instead of going out to explore the earth for the Son of God, king of kings and the Lord of Lords

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

One brave deed makes no hero.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

The progress of the Way seems retreating.

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

There's not one cast member of 90210 who didn't throw a tantrum to two themselves.