Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

With thee conversing I forget the way.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.

Even the Bible itself is interpreted and understood in various ways, and so always becomes the center of sectarianism. Just in the same way, dogmas and creeds cannot bring Christian unity, because human minds are not so uniformly created that they can unite in a single dogma or creed. Even our understanding of Christ Himself cannot be the basis of unity, because He is too big to be understood by any one person or group, and therefore our limited understandings do not always coincide. One emphasizes this point about Christ, another that; and this again becomes the cause of divisions. If we will only take our fellowship with Christ as the center of Christian faith, all Christians will realize their oneness... All our fellowship, however varied, is with the same Lord, and the same Saviour is our one Head.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of everything.

He will give the devil his due.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. - James Anthony Froude,

To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

To err is human.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

He wakes a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.