He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.

You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul.

Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done.

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Conquer the angry man by love.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

Every time I see a smiling person on earth, I feel the warmth of the Sun in the sky.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.