Some people spend their entire lives seeing the snow without ever seeing the magic in the existence of one snowflake.

What else is a child, but hope? Hope for the future, hope for one's own salvation, hope for a tomorrow that shines as bright and warm as the best yesterday you can remember.

Hope is human natural right but they have to keep it.

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.

The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I have worked with several dance companies.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

Hate is a strong word. I don't really try to hate anything. Yeah, you could say I have a complicated, domestic relationship with America for sure.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.