Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Stories are equipment for living.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language.

We underestimate ourselves, we do not believe in our strength, abilities, and talents and we have a distorted vision of ourselves

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

I don't want to give Robbie Blake any praise, but he was superb.