Maybe love can kill better than hate.

you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.

Glory to the the Great God!

I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past.

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

You have to be very careful with women friends.

Pentecostals believe they experience the power of the Holy Spirit at various times. I believe that also since I have experienced it first-hand. It's not something that can be easily explained.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.