"Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do."

“Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.”

Source : "Bob Stoops: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 15, 2011.

“There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.”

“At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.”

“Are we being good ancestors?”

“When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.”

“Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com

“One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

“I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.”