"We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus."

“Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.”

“While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears.”

“Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

“Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.”

“Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Twilight Zone" ("The Obsolete Man", 1961), www.imdb.com. 1959–1964.

“We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way.”

Source : David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.50, North Atlantic Books

“We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.”

“At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.