Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.
My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever
Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.
I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.