A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.
If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.
Less feelings means less goodbyes.
Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.
A lot of people sayin’ f*** me. Problem is they be telling everybody but me.
Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.
To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.
I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.
Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate. In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.