"When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God."

“How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.”

Source : John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”

“Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.”

“The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

“Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.”

“The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?”

“Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.”

Source : Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press