“It seems we’re not only uninformed about our present.”

It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.

Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement.

The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word.

Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life.

We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification.

Maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Where no girl is denied access to education, for instance.

Se oAnd I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.f sex is enraging.

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain – and pretty much nothing else.

But it doesn’t change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step.

A real world that is increasingly technology-driven.

Because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to ‘this costs too much’ or ‘that’s impossible.’

There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.

We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.

To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.