True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

To submit to a dominion is to pursue relationship with the King of that domain

We have everything within us for our greatness and for our destruction. It comes back to what we think about.

The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.

You are a sick, sick man, ” I told him.“Thank you, ” Ben replied, looking modest.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.