See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.

Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.