He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy and I helped him bite it.

I was successful materially but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Thought is the original source of all wealth all success all material gain all great discoveries and inventions and of all achievement.

I mean we are tribal by nature and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship hardship tends to unify.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him not to sap his strength in folly and vice and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material it's about trying to find some strength through that.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society something tragic or monumental has happened to them.