Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Rainbows apologize for angry skies.

Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.

Like trying to piss up a rope.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.

A Delphic sword.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.