Names are for those who do not know themselves." Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny

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.

May the knowledge of the Gospel, the power of salvation transform our lives to walk in the light.

When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens.

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

Loving God and people sets us free from the it’s all about me syndrome

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.

Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind