Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

The most important feature of Christ's character was... his confidence in the greatness of the human soul.

Leo Tolstoy

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Eminem

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Roger Bannister

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

John Updike, The Beauty of the L

For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.

Mark Wahlberg

You're my religion. You're all I've got.

Ernest Hemingway

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.

Laura Riding

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Golda Meir

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Bob Newhart