A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority. They had been in the Presence of God and they reported what they saw there. They were prophets, not scribes: for the scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells us what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen, there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes; but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?".

Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. .

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The seal went into the restaurant and was asked by the waiter if he would like a Canadian Club on the rocks. He replied no thank you.