Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.