Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

The presence or calling of God can be no reasons but the guidance of God because of His glorification.

I would rather be kind than wise.

The body is reached through the spirit. First you have to heal the soul. Then you can work on the body.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

The police didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.