Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

Clutter is postponed decisions.

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.

I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be that in love with life.