In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Nothing trains like the triumph in trials.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.