Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

With best thoughts, words and actions we align our past, present and future.

Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

Memory Lane always seems to be under reconstruction.

Where you are today is where you're from tomorrow.

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

No one conquers fear easily, Robert. It takes a brave heart to win great battles.

God doesn’t need to be a witness. He doesn’t need to go to a court, does he? ‘You’ are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there’s no karma bondage. And ‘God’ only keeps on ‘seeing’!

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.