"Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it."

“Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.”

Source : "Kamala Harris slams Romney on housing" by Drew Joseph, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2012.

“Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?”

“Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.”

“I only miss you when I'm breathing”

Source : "Breathing". Song by Jason Derulo, Future Story Album, September 27, 2011.

“It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.”

“I think I've learnt a lot about bullying and how to deal with bullying and how to get over that and to just be yourself and forget the haters.”

“My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.”

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.49, David C Cook

“Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.”