There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me