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In every victory, Let it be said of me…My source of strength, My source of hope… Is Christ alone.

Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God’s tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

My phone rings, they call me up and say, ‘Chael, your testosterone level is too high.’ I say, ‘Well, how high was it?’ They say, ‘0.7.’ I said, ‘What’s normal?’ They say, ‘0.6.’; I said, ‘One-tenth? You’re telling me I’m one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that – you must have caught me on a low day.’

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

I said, ‘If the quarterback is a runner, it’ll work.’ But if your quarterback’s not a runner, in my judgment and in the judgment of most of the people, it wouldn’t work without the quarterback running the ball.

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity… (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

I didn’t want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, What happened then, daddy? I said, If you learn to read, you can find out. I’m too tired to read. I’ll read to you tomorrow. So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don’t teach children how to read. Don’t teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they’re working ass-backwards.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven’t said to that someone.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don’t tell me I can’t do something. Don’t tell me it’s impossible. Don’t tell me I’m not the greatest. I’m the double greatest.

The Water said to the dirty one, Come here. The dirty one said, I am too ashamed. The water replied, How will your shame be washed away without me?

Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don’t think this is so; I’d rather call them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look for the new and the hidden; courage to develop your own tastes regardless of what others might say or think.

On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested.

As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It’s worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn’t.

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love – nothing else.

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

It’s a failure only if you don’t get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

Zach, I said as I lay there Where did you go? When you were looking for me? I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes. Crazy. His voice was a whisper against my skin. I went crazy.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

If it wasn’t for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there’d be no Jazz. Wasn’t middle~class who said Let’s go hear Bird tonight.

I don’t see any police cars. They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in the hands of a few guests. So? she snapped. It’s a party. Alcohol is illegal under the age of twenty-one. Great! Marcie shouted. What am I going to do? She paused, then raised her voice again. You probably called them! Who, me? Vee said. And lose the free food? No way.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player…now it’s my turn to laugh.

If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them is conclusive upon the other departments, it may be answered, that this cannot be the natural presumption, where it is not be collected from any particular provisions in the Constitution.

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would… have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.