There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

You must write to the people's expertise.