All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

I have shed many tears.I have been broken in my spirit.But through it all, God's grace have lifted my soul.

Creating a plan to bring in more business in a way that does not ultimately support yourannual goals is fighting against yourself.

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.