"My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it."

-- Henry David Thoreau

“I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.”
“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”
“I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.”
“Family is a transitive property.”
“Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.”
“Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.”
“While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.”
“I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.”

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