When you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.
You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
I am part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed. . . My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is in God's hands. . . I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till he comes, give until I drop, speak out until all know, and work until he stops me.
If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.