Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol.

Success has made failures of many men.

The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead, And saw a something hard to name Fly mothlike over baby's bed.

Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.

I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose over the city, Behind the dark church tower.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T. On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.