But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

May you find the grace of triumph in any situation.

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.

Lust. It’s not soft like the touch of a raindrop. It’s not easy like floating aimlessly on the water. It’s weighted, and heavy, a spark that catches on the forest of your body. A wildfire.

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves

I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.