There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 He said to Judas when he betrayed Him: "Friend, wherefore art thou come?" Just as if He had said: "Thou hatest me, and art mine enemy, yet I love thee, and am thy friend." ... As though God in human nature were saying: "I am pure, simple goodness, and therefore I cannot will or desire or rejoice in, or do or give anything but goodness. If I am to reward thee for thy evil and wickedness, I must do it with goodness, for I am and have nothing else." ... Theologia Germanica June 7, 2002 Some will not believe in miracles because the laws of nature work uniformly. But their uniformity is undisturbed by human operations; the will of man wields, without cancelling, these mighty forces which surround us: and why may not the will of God do the same?

Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. -Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.'

There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.