We are all the President's men.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart", in which we tell our needs... We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead, And saw a something hard to name Fly mothlike over baby's bed.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of the day, and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.

By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.

John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade.