"Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it."

“How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.”

“The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude.”

“If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

Source : Anna Laetitia Waring, “Father, I Know That All My Life”

“With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.”

Source : Paul Farmer (2013). “To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation”, p.58, Univ of California Press

“If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism -- that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.”

Source : "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.

“My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 161), 1895.

“The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.”

“Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.”