Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".

When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

I get into beatific cornucopia when I delve into books, coffee, and wanderings!

I'm not a housewife in any way.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

I ain't kinda hot, I'm sauna/ I sweat money and the bank is my shower

The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.