bright lights, big city.

By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting, With her own blood to life again doth bring.

Forgiveness is a rebirth of hope, a reorganization of thought, and a reconstruction of dreams. Once forgiving begins, dreams can be rebuilt. When forgiving is complete, meaning has been extracted from the worst of experiences and used to create a new set of moral rules and a new interpretation of life's events.

The government of China has become like UK and US a pirate of innocent kidnapped pharmaceutically abused primates.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore To its very core!

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another .... And if they can but get to be of a Sect which they think the holiest (as the Anabaptists and the Separatists), or which is the largest (as the Greeks and the Romans), they think then that they are sufficiently warranted to deny others to be God's Church, or at least to deny them Christian love and communion.

It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.