Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

Every man shall give account of his life to his Maker.

I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about.

Beware of those who would try to talk you into believing that you are incapable of sailing the ship of your dream.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I am wealthy in my friends.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.