It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

He has changed He has grown No longer bud but Love Fullblown.

Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking .

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.

For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.

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.

'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it. - Elizabeth I,

Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.

Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.

He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer.

Ninety percent of success is showing up.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanations.

When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing — a vice little known heretofore in the American army — is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.'

Iraq is an unjust war. .

God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.