Knowledge is of more value than gold

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Don't become so materialistic and mechanized that one day you stop believing in God's created nature and the natural beauty, Enjoy god gifted natural beauty to the fullest as you have only one LIFE!!!

Often a healthy obsession is an essential component of great success.

It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.