A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.
You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?
I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully human. They seem a little rigid and narrow at times, wanting to be holy, but not human. They seem to be winning a place in heaven, without realizing or enjoying the beauty of earth. They keep the ten commandments, but their observances look so joyless. Such a world seems small and the air in that world is stale.
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.
He who's never loved cannot be good.
Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.