The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

When we were little kids, 'friend' wasn't a verb. You didn't 'friend' someone. You had friends. It was only a noun. It didn't multitask. It was a simpler time, Hen.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these very old, aging, aging ships. They're old. They're tired.

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.