...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.

Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.

A leader should accurately discern deceit.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.