The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

He who thinks he knows it all knows very little." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

People will try to frustrate you in life. But you have to decide to stay focus and determined to realize your goal.

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.