So long as I was pursuing my passion, I would always find courage. I would be restored. My history of silence didn’t have to be my future.

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does, " Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.

The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.

Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.