What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

The roots of shame run deep.

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

No action is safe from meaning.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.

Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time.

To be happy, you have to love and forgive.

Miami, you can never run out of material. As long as you have Miami around you, you will never, never stop being amused.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

The Chinese can devalue their currency, apparently without doing much harm to themselves. They can do this as a strategy to destroy our economy in America.

When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.