I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.