Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders of a certain class or group meet happily among themselves, then the one new thing, peace, and the one new man created by Christ, are missing; then no faith, no church, no Christ, is found or confessed. For if the attribute "Christian" can be given sense from Eph. 2, then it means reconciled and reconciling, triumphant over walls and removing the debris, showing solidarity with the "enemy" and promoting not one's own peace of mind but "our peace"... When this peace is deprived of its social, national, or economic dimensions, when it is distorted or emasculated so much that only "peace of mind" enjoyed by saintly individuals is left -- then Jesus Christ is being flatly denied. To propose, in the name of Christianity, neutrality or unconcern on questions of international, racial, or economic peace -- this amounts to using Christ's name in vain.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Politics is the art of the possible.

O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor To those of mine!

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

The lyric sound of laughter Fills all the April hills The joy-song of the crocus, The mirth of daffodils.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.