What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well.
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.
One should use common words to say uncommon things
Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.