Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.

I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd And yet I found it sweet and fair.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. •Anonymous Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.

Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the horizon, when our sun is set, Which will through Christ a resurrection get.

We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.

You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.