Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Habits are safer than rules

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.