Nate

“What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"

"Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“To create art was not to capture it, but to participate in it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“God always required something deeper than religious legalism.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy