I was 8, 569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

It's difficult to plan this kind of career. You just need to wait and be picky and try not to commit to just one thing. I'll have to see what's next, see what happens, and see what the future brings.

I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.