Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.

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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. _ John Lennon

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ― John F. Kennedy

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You have not failed until you quit trying. - Gordon B. Hinckley

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Robert H. Schuller

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. — Alexander the Great

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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.

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