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It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.
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So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.
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Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.
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Fashion makes the fur fly.
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I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.
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As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.
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Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.
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It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.
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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
