Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.