A careless word may kindle strife.A cruel word may wreck a life.A timely word may level stress.A loving word may heal and bless.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Justice and Judgment are thy throne Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one, Invite us near thy face.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.

Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, not I. If I must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.

For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique inerrancy. It was because popes could and did err and because councils could and did err that Luther came to realize the supremacy of Scripture. Luther did not despise church authority, nor did he repudiate church councils as having no value. His praise of the Council of Nicaea is noteworthy. Luther and the Reformers did not mean by "Sola Scriptura" that the Bible is the only authority in the church; rather, they meant that the Bible is the only infallible authority in the church.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

A flea and a fly in a flue were imprisoned so what could they do? Said the flea "let us fly" said the fly" let us flee" so they flew through a flaw in the flue.

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.

Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine , Long be thine import from all duty free, And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.