Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.

It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.