Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

Karate is for life, not points.

Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

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