"The sky is the sky wherever you go."

“Optimism is true moral courage.”

“You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.”

Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

“I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.”

“The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.”

“Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.”

Source : "Huckabee: May God Forgive Us For DOMA Reversal" by Sam Brodey, www.slate.com. June 26, 2013.

“I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.”

“I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.”

“What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?”