Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.

Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

Mr. Welper, of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

My instinct told me that she didn't want me to understand. What she felt and lived with couldn't be shared or understood by anyone else.

If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.

Just as you are, come to Christ Jesus, He will change you, to what you ought to be.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.