Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To learn/grow from these experiences, you must accept the role you played in each of them.

It's SO much worse in high school! People talk about who's dating with such GRAVITY, like they're talking about wikileaks.

Do you have things in your past you're not proud of? Things that make you feel ashamed?''That's what makes Christ's death on the cross so personal.

The distance doesn't matter only the first step is difficult.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.