I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

"Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of cataracts!" An angel who had been O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled, And knelt to Nature first, on the wild cliff unseen.

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

behind the clouds, the sun is shining.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there.

Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 If those who say that we must preach the same message as Paul and the other apostles mean that we should also exhibit the same adaptability and sensitivity to the background culture, then they are right... If, however, they mean that we should expect results merely by repeating the actual phrases found in the New Testament, then they are mistaken. They are making, in fact, one of the basic mistakes in verbal communication, which is to confuse words with what they describe. The gospel is something God has done, not a series of phrases describing it. Saying this does not undermine the Christian's belief in the inspiration of the Bible, for the important thing about the Bible is what it talks about, rather than the way it does the talking. If we considered that there was the same degree of essential inspiration in the way it does the talking, then we would have to insist that every Christian learn Hebrew and Greek. The mere fact that we in the Western world read translations of the scriptures is a clear admission that times and cultures have changed.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. -Robert M. Persig.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.