You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
God, if You don't help me, I'm going to die.
I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.
In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.
I usually don't get this pretty at 3 o'clock.
Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.
I want to make a difference.
When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.