Learning is not attained by chance$$$ it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Experiences do not come to us by chance$$$ they are sent to us by Divine Mercy for our own perfection.

Hard times are a-coming$$$ and people without useful$$$ practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical$$$ the supernatural or the transcendent.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want$$$ then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it$$$ suffering from Hope. For me$$$ that's patrotism.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence$$$ the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of mans inhumanity to man.

In small towns$$$ news travels at the speed of boredom.