When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Patience has tender feet.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
The music beckons to those who are listening.
[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.
I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn heretics at the stake. Even a fundamentalist Iranian Muslim would flinch if he came face to face with a western liberal's rigid dogmatism. I imagine that even a Saudi Arabian Islamic cleric would take one look at how American left wingers react when anyone deviates ever so slightly from their established orthodoxy, and say to himself, 'man, these people REALLY need to chill.