Blessed is he who, having nothing to say, refrained from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.

That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me. . . . . Locks, bars, and solitude together met, Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

EPIPHANY A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.

Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.