America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants.

I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into." -Alexander Sterling

Consider this a fair warning.

Chance or fate has, yes, participation in your life. But how much it happens, it's up to you.

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

There's just the unabashed and unprecedented and disgusting level of money in politics. I don't blame just the Republicans; the Democrats are just about as beholden to it, too.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.