God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

We read to know we're not alone.

People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments.

Labour is blossoming or dancing whereThe body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.