So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing I learn is that journalists are very messy.