We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them; keep making them until you are confident in what you see.
You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.
Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
God's promises are always yes. It only takes faith and obedience to recognize them. When you do, claim them with sincerity in your heart.
I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.
I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
I wouldn't push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.
