A thorn in the flesh.

10 million people marched against the war on 5 continents in the most united opposition to war ever seen in history. Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ever saying, "That be far from Thee, Lord!" We are careful, in our unbelief, over the divine dignity, of which He is too grand to think. Better pleasing to God ... is the audacity of Job, who, rushing into His presence, and flinging the door of His presence-chamber to the wall, like a troubled -- it may be angry -- but yet faithful child, calls aloud in the ear of Him whose perfect Fatherhood he has yet to learn, "Am I a sea or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me?"... The devotion of God to His creatures is perfect; He does not think about Himself, but about them; He wants nothing for Himself, but finds His blessedness in the outgoing of blessedness. Ah! it is a terrible -- shall it be a lonely glory, this? We will draw near with our human response, our abandonment of self in the faith of Jesus. He Lives Himself to us -- shall we not give ourselves to Him? Shall we not give ourselves to each other whom He loves?

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

A candle brightens the world around it. Unfortunately, it creates a shadow of its own. It still serves the purpose it is meant for.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

The Aethiop The purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance; the patterns of stars with names of bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin; other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own, with all their diverse moons, bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces; comets with their streaming tails bent by pressure from our sun; the skyscape of our Milky Way holding in its shimmering disc an infinity of suns ; knowing there are holes of darkness gulping mass and even light, knowing that this galaxy of ours is one of multitudes in what we call the heavens, it troubles me. It troubles me. -President Jimmy Carter- .

Our true nationality is mankind.

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.