A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.