“Trumps America is not America: not todays or tomorrows, but yesterdays.Trumps America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a v...”

“I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.”

“The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.”

“It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.”

“Children see God every day; they just don't call it that. It's the summer sky painted with cumulus clouds by day and sequined with a million stars by night. It's the sweet whispers of sweet gum tre...”

“A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or its really hard to catch.”

“When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.”

“Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone.”

“If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.”

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

“I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.”

“I think marriage is all about timing.”

“It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”

“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”

“The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.”