Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.

An evangelist is like a newscaster on television or a journalist writing for a newspaper . . . except that the evangelist’s mission is to tell the Good News that never changes.

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

No matter how much you tell yourself your over someone, your heart knows the truth

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.