We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.

Beauty is only skin deep...but ugly goes all the way to the bone!

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,-- Freedom to worship God.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 The higher faiths call their followers to strenuous moral effort. Such effort is likely to be arduous and painful in proportion to the height of the ideal, desperate in proportion to the sensitiveness of the conscience. A morbid scrupulousness besets the morally serious soul. It is anxious and troubled, afraid of evil, haunted by the memory of failure. The best of the Pharisees tended in this direction, and no less the best of the Stoics. And so little has Christianity been understood that the popular idea of a serious Christian is modeled upon the same type of character. (Continued tomorrow).

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.The pessimist fears it is true.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.