The great danger for family life in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure comfort and independence lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home family a clan a small town a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born or we are peripherally aware of it.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

For the record I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

You know this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith is a good notion but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Religious faith depends on a host of social psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities evidence and logic.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

But while success and failure depend on conditions the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I've had a lot of experience in independent film and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks and where you cut and what you don't cut.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind which is independent of all experience in its origin though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

The basis the corner-stone of this Government was the perfect equality of the free sovereign and independent States which made it.