Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.
The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best.
Yang bisa kita lakukan sebagai penulis hanyalah mencoba, mengerahkan usaha, menabur benih, dan menuai panen apa pun yang diberikan dengan penuh sukacita dan syukur.
Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me.
I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.
Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.