And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

What is the difference between a Peeping Tom and someone who's just got out of the bath?One is rude and nosy, and the other's nude and rosy.

cady is dandy, but liquor is quicker, (Ogden Nash).

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

"Did not I, through faith, conquer kingdoms, apply justice, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions, put out raging fires, escape the edge of the sword, win strength out of weakness, become valiant in war, and put foreign armies to flight? Was I not a man of faith and a man of action in one skin? Why are the faithful so afraid of deeds for fear they should fall into 'Justification by works'? And why is Thy Church so uncomfortable with its men of action? And why do men of spirit so often have to work apart from, and even against it? Are there no longer kingdoms to be conquered, injustice to be destroyed, promises to be obtained? The Son of David is a warrior still. Must He tread the winepress alone?".

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.

Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.

Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?.