Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

To learn is to change how you think.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Poets are Prisoners8-29-2015Poets are prisonersPractitioners, commissioners &conditioners of the spoken word Caged by their own mindsWords are shackles

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.