"Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?"

-- Elizabeth Jane Howard

“I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace,”

Source : "Reps. Rogers, Smith spar over Benghazi; Mark Sanford talks political redemption". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2013.
“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”
“According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect, everyone in it would have to follow a long, specific set of rules for it to be perfect. Heaven is prison. In Hell, everyone is already evil there, so no rules need to be set to make it completely evil. Hell is freedom.”
“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
“Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.”
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
“It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.”
“The Earth needs rebels!”

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