Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. -Douglas Yates.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl Jones.

Christmas Eve High o'er the lonely hills black turns to gray, Bird-song the valley fills, mists fold away Gray wakes to green again, Beauty is seen again, Gold and serene again dawneth the day. So, o'er the hills of life, stormy, forlorn, Out of the cloud and strife sunrise is born; Swift grows the light for us, Ended is night for us, Soundless and bright for us breaketh God's morn. Hear we no beat of drums, fanfare, nor cry, When Christ the herald comes quietly nigh; Splendor He makes on earth; Color awakes on earth; Suddenly breaks on earth light from the sky. Bid then farewell to sleep: rise up and run! What though the hill be steep? Strength's in the sun. Now you shall find at last Night's left behind at last, And for mankind at last, Day has begun!

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much is bad and meaningless. The Christian answer is that this is a good world gone wrong, but with a memory of what it should have been.

A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Money doesn't sleep.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.