“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

“I feel that my goal in life is to help people love God and to know Jesus, not to hate Buddha or disrespect Muhammad. The fact is, to have some televangelist with erect hair to make snide comments about the Buddha – that isn’t my idea of Christian maturity.”

– Neo Oliver, A New Kind of Christian

Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me, “Norman, you like to write stories.” I said, “Yes, I do.” Then he said, “Someday, when you’re ready, you might tell our family story.Only then will you understand what happened and why.”

– Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It