The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem .

Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living, is really the cost of living high.

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete exasperation.

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath.

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

Don't worry, it's not loaded.

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

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.