"True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior."

“Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?”

Source : Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.30, Penguin

“These were highly civil comments for crying out loud. I mean, people are going nuts. USA Today, the Politico. And some people were suggesting that my comments were below the belt. Well, take a look at some pictures. Given where she wears her belts. I mean, she wears them high up there around the bust line. Isn't just about everything about her below the belt when you look at the fashion sense she has?”

“It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 02, 2012

“The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

“My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks.”

Source : "Spencer Bachus finally gets his chairmanship" by Mary Orndorff Troyan, blog.al.com. December 9, 2010.

“Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.”

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.”