In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
Get it out of your historic head.
Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
I don't resent anything.
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions
Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.
Listen carefully to me. Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. . . There is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by out intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.