The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Revolutions never occur in mathematics.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo." Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," "How's the world a-usin' you?" . . . . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say "hullo."

Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers. -Unknown.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.

To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony: Meeting were bare without it.

I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me brawn and brain to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for patience God placed me in situations where I was forced to wait. I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help. I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities. I asked for everything so I could enjoy life. Instead, He gave me life so I could enjoy everything. I received nothing I wanted I received everything I needed. My prayer has been answered.

No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ethics except the stern and strict rule that is laid down here [Rev. 2:15, 16] by St. John. An easy-going Christianity could never have survived; only the most convinced, resolute, almost bigoted adherence to the most uncompromising interepretation of its own principles could have given the Christians the courage and self-reliance that were needed. For them to hesitate or to doubt was to be lost.