Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.

Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Where would you be if God took away all your Christian work? Too often it is our Christian work that is worshiped and not God.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

When it's breezy, hit it easy.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.

He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over.

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you. -Cheri Huber.