"It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act."

“National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.”

“Two beheadings out of six wives is too many.”

“I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.”

“You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.”

Source : "The Ladder of the Beatitudes". Book by Jim Forest, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

“As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.”

“At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.”

“Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.”

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (2004). “Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

“The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.”

Source : "Leland Ryken Interview Differences in Bible Translations". Christian Publishing House Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.