From the fires of persecution, can come sparks of light.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.

When fear no longer takes hold, the possibilities are endless.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.

Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His armstightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as Ilive.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.