Amazingly, my impatience didn’t speed up the procession at all.

God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

There is no limit of what you can or don't do! as the word itself gives you the strength to survive called friendship..

What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?

I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy.