Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

Karate is for life, not points.

Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment.

It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.

Time is more important than price. When time is up price will reverse.