"I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis."

“I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.”

“The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.”

“Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.”

Source : Erwin W. Lutzer (1997). “Pastor to Pastor: Tackling the Problems of Ministry”, p.99, Kregel Publications

“As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.”

“Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena.”

“Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.”

Source : "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

“... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”

“Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning, and we have not yet reached this point for most of medicine.”