From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

If you rest, you rust.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

I’m on a long journey around and through myself...

Agres!” she hissed again even louder this time “WHAT!” Tria smiled “Oh good you are alive.

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now.

When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.