Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.