It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret...
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.
Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.
What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
I’m convinced that most men don’t know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man’s atrocities, but wouldn’t dream of imprisoning a mother for her son’s crime?
Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.
It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.