There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

No emphaty when you had blinders on.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.