"If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly."

“Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.”

“All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.”

Source : Ted Schwarz, Arnold Friberg (1985). “Arnold Friberg: the passion of a modern master”

“When Christ is my hope, he becomes the one thing in which I have confidence. I act on his wisdom and bank on his grace. I trust his promises and I rely on his presence. And I pursue all the good things that he has promised me simply because I trust him. So, I am not manipulating, controlling, or threatening my way through life to get what I want, because I have found what I want in Christ. He is my hope.”

“Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.”

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

“No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.”

“The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant,”

Source : "Vincenzo Nibali escapes public grilling on drugs in Tour de France" by William Fotheringham, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2014.

“Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.”

“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.”