I needed a spark in my life. You become closer to the Lord. The word becomes alive and real. After read more

I needed a spark in my life. You become closer to the Lord. The word becomes alive and real. After the class, I felt God was talking to me and I knew my purpose was to bring his love to others.

Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, read more

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

(The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As read more

(The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.

I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not read more

I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not knowing where the entrance was and getting lost and having to ask people where to go and walking through with my bag and being kind of like, 'Where do I go? Where's my locker?'

[After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With writing partner John Doolittle, read more

[After working constantly in the 1980s, Armstrong tried his hand at screenwriting in the 1990s. With writing partner John Doolittle, he sold several scripts but none ended up on the screen.] It occurred to me after a while -- I didn't understand why I was setting myself up for two careers where I was going to be rejected, ... You can do it all right with one, but come on.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance read more

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different read more

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?

People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all read more

People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all of them were different. There were 650,000 the year before.