What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.

Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent.

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

If we truly want to be tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father in bringing to pass His eternal purposes, we need only to be a friend.

God is not an elusive dream or a phantom to chase, but a divine person to know. He does not avoid us, but seeks us. When we seek Him, the contact is instantaneous.

I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.