"Wealth is not only what you have but it is also what you are."

-- Sterling W Sill

“Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'”
“The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.”

Source : "Artists on Art, from the XIV to the XX Century: 100 Illustrations". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, Pantheon books, 1947.
“You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!”
“God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.”
“We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.”
“When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.”
“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28, 1989.
“Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.”

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