Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

God is the designer of the family.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen.""I think you may be."I smiled dubiously. "Thank you.""It is not meant as a compliment. Hazard makes you elect. You cannot elect yourself.

It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

The more aspiration is partial realization.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.

Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end up going out to a lot of shows, and surfing with my folks is always high on the priority list.