Serendipity is not the product of patience

at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.