Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat...and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

The power others have to upset us and to steer us off our path is the power we gave to them.

With God, there is no such thing as a lost cause.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?'

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.

My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

The greatest possesion of man is character