"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."

“When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?”

“If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.”

“I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.”

“Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

“I like to do projects that are off-the-wall and on top-of-the-wall.”

“All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.”

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”

“I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.”

Source : "Priest Fights Gangs With 'Boundless Compassion'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.