"They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?"

“It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.”

“At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I prepared for a long time. I finally wrote two chapters and stopped. It was too complicated and too difficult to write. And who would've read it?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.”

“Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.”

“I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.”

“Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.”

“We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.”

Source : Veg Family, March 2003.

“One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.”

Source : "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.