The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

Movies require so many moving pieces to align that it really is a miracle that anything is made!

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

A healthy relationship with God is built on the internal changes He brings about through Christ.

Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

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