Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he’s a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd.

People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human.

If I had echolocation I could map out the terrain of ab muscles through sheer force of will. His cut body is meant to be relief mapped the way Braille is meant to be read. With my fingertips.

Ignorance is darkness.

Success certainly isn’t achievement of popularity. Success in God’s kingdom is loving God, loving one another, and being faithful to what He’s called us to do.

Lights, " I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

There is no right government except good government.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.