Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.