It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people.

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are

Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse

....because injustice promote brutal and brutality alike.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?

They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!