If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.

Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.

Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 Our own curiosity often hindereth us in the reading of holy writings, when we seek to understand and discuss, where we should pass simply on. If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character [i.e., reputation] for learning.

The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to be holy, a means to the integration of character for those who cannot bear their conflicts. It is a statement of the divine intention for humanity.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where tho' all things differ, all agree.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.