"Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave."

“I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell”

“Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.”

“The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.”

“Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.”

“We're all works of art in progress.”

“Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane”

“The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.”

Source : Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

“Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.”