A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Confidence is courage at ease.

The Widow and the Sheep A certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue? Does aught of its sweetness the blossom beguile? That meadow, those daisies, why do they not smile?

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 In his enthusiasm, the evangelist often finds it difficult seriously to imagine that anyone could be called not to be an evangelist. The man of vision and imagination finds it difficult to see the value of those who do no more than plod on faithfully along a well-tried road. The man whose concern is in personal dealing with people and leading them to understand God better finds it difficult to be patient with the theologian or the Christian philosopher whose work is in the quiet of a book-lined study. Yet the truth is that the wholeness which God is working to achieve is never complete in an individual, but through individuals living together as one body, each supplying the deficiencies of the others.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.

O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice; O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?