...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. .

Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.

Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Father; He is our right hand through which we offer ourselves to the Father. Unless He intercedes, there is no intercourse with God.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

We are one people and will act as one.

God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.