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“No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.”
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“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
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“The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.”
Source : Christopher Penczak, Andrea Neff (2004). “The Witch's Shield: Protection Magick & Psychic Self-defense”, p.30, Llewellyn Worldwide
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“Rudy Giuliani is more accomplished at cutting taxes than anyone else.”
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“Consume all obstacles, heavenly fire, and give us now both hearts of flame and tongues of fire to preach Your reconciling word, for Jesus' sake”
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“What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.”
Source : William Batchelder Greene (1873). “A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women”, p.6
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“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”
Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books