When speaking, being present means you choose to respond rather than react, letting go of emotions and objections and remaining focused on what is to be achieved.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Walt Whitman

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A fighter has to know fear.

Cus D'Amato

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

Ray Comfort

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Laurence Sterne

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

Eric Clapton

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Sir John Denham

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

Barry Sonnenfeld

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Pearl Buck

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

Robert H. Schuller