"Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return."

“Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.”

“I remember what Ron Greschner said when he retired. 'The thing I'm going to miss most is showering with 23 guys.' And that's what it's all about: camaraderie.”

“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.”

“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.”

“All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.”

“The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.”

“We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.45