I guess everyone has a bird urge when they look down heights, a desire to jump, without wing or buoyant sail. Fear of heights is fear of a desire to jump.

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

Each of you must decide where you stand. All we ask is that you refuse to kneel. You are the people. You have the power. Open your eyes. Open your minds. Then close the fingers on your hand.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.