Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.

Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.

Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.

He who works his land will have abundant food.

Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.

Others may argue your beliefs, but they can't refuse your love.

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

a hole big enough to drive a truck through (football).

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.