The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Eternal purpose can be viewed only through the light of God

Actions win wars. Actions heal wounds. Not words. Words are cheap. Mine, particularly. -Drew Evans.

The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.