“As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, No one can hurt you without your consent. In the words of Gandhi, They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

Before curiosity kills it, the cat learns more of the world than a hundred uninquisitive dogs.

The harder I work, Luckier I get.

Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Reason is the steering wheel. Emotion is the gas pedal.

Maybe the wolf is in love with the moon, and each month it cries for a love it will never touch.

Do everything in love.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another.

Starve your distractions, feed your focus.

Sweat is just fat crying.

Funny how we believe our own lies.

Today’s weakness is tomorrow’s failure.

The infinite – free, unbounded, full of joy – is our native state.

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last – the power to refuse our consent.

Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.

I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.