Republicans, meanwhile, to one degree or another, all opposed slavery. The party itself was founded to stop slavery.
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.
Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.
Ninety-five per cent of your success or failure will come from your daily habits.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...