Drae Wright

“By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.”
― Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

“Greek philosophers knew then that governments could warp men, just as men can warp governments. "People are the same everywhere, only governments try to make them different." Who was it who had said that? It could have been Socrates, but it wasn't. We recalled the engineering student in northern Iraq who had.”
― McGregor Smith Jr., Thank you, Marco Polo: The Story of the First Around-the-World Trailer Caravan

“...if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

“The momentum carried us out of the church and into the streets where true Christianity belongs.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel