Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records to outstrip our yesterdays by our today to do our work with more force than ever before.

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

He who destroys another person to succeed in life will have destruction awaiting him at the post of his success.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.