"My pleasures disappeared with my vices."

“Every community needs a rec center.”

“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”

“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”

“The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.”

“What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.”

“Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 21, 2017

“I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

“Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.”

Source : Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.19, Indiana University Press