The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.

My heart is ever at your service, my lord.

An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.

There is no such thing as justice-- in or out of court.

"The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! . . . . By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Diplomacy -- the art of letting someone have your own way.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute "shall"? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.