Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.