Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.

we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.

Love me...with all the abandonof a sudden wild rain.

I'm personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to get bored.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.