If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Start where you are, use what you have.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me. Part of this will be to get off social media. I know social media is just a tool, but we've been using it in a way that has transformed us from a nation into an audience, passively spectating our own ruin.
The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.
I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.
Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!