How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Love cannot reconcile with deception

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.