New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Freedom - rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.