Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.

It is not what you would do with your millionsshould riches ness be your lot. It is what you are doing at presentwith the dollar and quarter you've got.

In the great right of an excessive wrong.

Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God... Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you... Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him... Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

From many to make one.

When an old man dies, a library burns down.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.

In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!

Good hands (sports cliche).

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want.