Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.
We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.
Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.
Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.
If we do not fight to protect and preserve the freedom our ancestors died to obtain for us, our children will die to get it back.
Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within, Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.
We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.