"The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1."

“I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.”

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”

Source : Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, p.97, Lulu.com

“Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.”

“The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.”

“You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.”

“When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting...”

“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”

“the National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.”