The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

You are not weak. People like us, we're brave. We're the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.

I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.