"At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am."

“I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.”

Source : "Ex-Bush Team Acclimates to Private Life" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2009.

“I am the Love that dare not speak its name.”

Source : Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1990). “"Two Loves" & Other Poems: A Selection”

“Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.”

“We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.”

“I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.”

“Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.”

“The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute

“Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply let go of the thoughts and begin again. It is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we're not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Mar 28, 2017