Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced,. . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.
I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.