"The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy."

“Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.”

“I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.”

“I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

“The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.”

“Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.”

Source : Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

“Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!”

Source : "El Amin, The Faithful", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 625-29, 1922.

“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness”

“As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com