Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Write til your fingers bleed.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Leadership can mean defiance.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

You can’t be friends with a droid.

If a man realizes who he is, he is confident of his strength

With every blessing comes temptation, tests and persecution

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.

What happens if I do nothing?

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.