I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.
. . . racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
. . . we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.
I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.
I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.
Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set.
I don't even know what success is.
Live in such a way that people who know you but don't know Christ will want to know Christ because of you.
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.