You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

To understand humanity, you must first understand yourself.

Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

As young one we learned life is a opportunity and when we grow older we learned something more precious death is a gift

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.