I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

He was a father. That’s what a father does.
Eases the burdens of those he loves.
Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.