I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

J. C. Watts

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

Source Unknown

I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did not follow Jesus. Or worse, preferring the company of my sovereign self. But soon I found that my preferences were honored by neither Scripture nor Jesus. I didn't come to the conviction easily, but finally there was no getting around it: there can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life apart from immersion and embrace of community. I am not myself by myself. Community, not the highly vaunted individualism of our culture, is the setting in which Christ is at play.

Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Lord Chesterfield

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

James Baldwin

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Will Smith

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

J. William Fulbright

If a thousand were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Jaron Lanier

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Edward Steichen

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Fidel Castro