Favorite quotes
“Curiosity has always been my best ally.” - Steve Graham
“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel
“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” - Robert Green Ingersoll
“Don’t use the Bible to support your thoughts, use the Bible to create them.” – Steve Graham
“Be willing to suffer the consequences of being genuine.” – Warren Brown
“Trying to understand some people is like trying to smell the color nine.” - Chris Rice
“How one acts in the face of great hardship depends on how they have responded to life’s previous challenges. If you want to respond well, you must practice responding well to today’s challenges. Tomorrow will take care of itself only if you learn how to take care of today.” – Steve Graham
“My suggested short list of Living-with-No-Regrets:
This list applies to all PERSONS (self, family, friends, strangers, and enemies), all ANIMALS (including bugs and bees, worms and snails, and even the little creatures you find less adorable), and all of the ENVIRONMENT (skies, lands and oceans).
1. Be kind
2. Be honest
3. Be forgiving
4. Be playful
5. Be generous
6. Be adventurous
7. Leave every place you visit and every person you encounter a little bit better off than before you arrived.” – Steve Graham
“Be as you wish to seem.” – Socrates
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates
“Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
“Before letting the butterfly fly out the window and into the garden, the grandfather told his grandson the difference between what was and what is: What was, was; and what is, is. What was is no longer, and what is, cannot be if what is, is combined with what was. What is, is, and is no longer what was. The butterfly seems to be aware of this and so changes the world.” – Steve Graham
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” – Samuel Johnson
“The future is purchased with the present.” – Samuel Johnson
“Language is the dress of thought.” – Samuel Johnson
“Who you become and where you go in life often depends upon what you do while sitting or lying down.” – Steve Graham
“Here is the uncomfortable reality: I do not believe that most evangelicals are racists. But every strong Trump supporter has decided that racism is not a moral disqualification in the President of the United States. And that is something more than a political compromise. It is a revelation of moral priorities.” – Michael Gerson, the Washington Post, April 2018 “The Last Temptation: Trump and the Evangelical Temptation”
“It is difficult to see something you so deeply value discredited so comprehensively.” – Michael Gerson, the Washington Post, April 2018 “The Last Temptation: Trump and the Evangelical Temptation”
“Συνήκατε ταῦτα πάντα” (SooNehKahTeh TaoTa PahnTa): “Have you understood all these things?” - The Book of Matthew 13:51
“Hatred is born out of ignorance. Fear is its father, and isolation is its mother” - Christian Picciolini
“When we don’t understand something, we tend to be afraid of it. If we keep ourselves from it, that fear grows. Sometimes it turns into hatred.” - Christian Picciolini
“Higher quality thinking leads to higher quality questions. Higher quality questions lead to higher quality answers. Higher quality answers lead to a higher quality of life.” – Steve Graham
“A mob acts on emotion, absent facts, absent contemplation, and mostly absent responsibility. What they get is anonymity. A conscience can be exhausting. It’ll keep you up at night. A mob’s a place where people go to take a break from their conscience.” - Spoken by Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird” in the Broadway play. (by Harper Lee, adapted for Broadway by Aaron Sorkin)
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.” - Thomas Paine
“Alas, there are worlds of wisdom waiting to be explored, oceans of information offering their opinions, and regions of amazing riches all beckoning to me.... How can I not answer their calls?” – Steve Graham
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“How rich would you be in heaven if you could only possess what you have blissfully given away and spend time with only those you have selflessly loved?” – Steve Graham
“Monosyllabic is misleading.” – Anonymous
“In your lack of suffering, you may have missed a lesson or two that I have gained in my suffering.” – Steve Graham
