Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

Malcolm X

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Johnny Mathis

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.

Habeeb Akande

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

Maureen Johnson

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

Paul Farmer

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be defeat, is one who will inspire them to fight against apparently impossible odds. They will, indeed, never suffer defeat, but will fight on until annihilated by capture or death. The secret of success even in the more pacific engagements of life lies in this principle

H. E. E. Hayes

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Alan Mollohan

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Aldous Huxley

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Marianne Williamson