Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.
Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.
Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.
The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.
The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.
The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.
Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. . . . Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.
I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.
I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.