The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.

In times of distress strengthen your heart.

War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

One more such victory and we are undone.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

How wonderful it is to be surprised by God’s call, to embrace his word, and to walk in the footsteps of Jesus... Your life will become richer and more joyful each day!

I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. No dream is ever chased alone.

My first go-round was in a group called Heltah Skeltah, I did that, it was cool.