I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

I couldn't help but say to , just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.

I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.

Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three On the mossed elm; three on the naked lime Trembling,--and one upon the old oak tree! Where is the Dryad's immortality?

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

A satellite has no conscience.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.