My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

I'm walking to the path of light, And i have elements on my side, But without them I'm still behind them.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Obstacles transformed become new capabilities

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.