A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine. . . Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.
The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".
If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.
Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.
Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.
We can't just go, like, oh that'd be cool then not do it. So it's one of those weird things. You gain all these things on your journey. You get smarter. It's interesting how you are who you are in high school in a lot of ways. When I look at my friends, I feel no different about them than I did when I was in high school. I mean that in a great way. They've taken on a micro scale what they were doing and making it bigger.
All our tastes are but reminiscences.