"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys."

“I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.”

Source : Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

“I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.”

“Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.”

“I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.”

“Sometimes I think change is a good thing.”

“I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.”

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”

Source : William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.13, Zed Books

“People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'”