"...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again."

“Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.”

“The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road.”

“Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

“Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.”

“None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd

“The beginning of a project or anything is what makes me feel vulnerable. How to take that first step. And the ending of anything. How to release what you know and leap into the unknown.”

“In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.”

Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.193, Simon and Schuster