Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

What do Windows and a handgun have in common?Both are harmless while not loaded.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.

If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.

Doctor: "Take the green pill with a glass of water when you get up. Take the blue pill with a glass of water after lunch.Then just before going to bed, take the red pill with another glass of water." Man: "Exactly what's my problem, doc?" Doctor: "You're not drinking enough water.".

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument from prophecy, on which the early apologists laid so much weight, was all ex post facto. No one beforehand could have conjectured a tenth of it. But without the background of Jewish prophet and psalmist, of Jewish national history, it would be hard to understand Jesus. If prophet and historian and legislator did not in type and enigma foretell in detail the story of his life, he was none the less their heir. None the less was he their heir in that he was not in bondage to his inheritance, but... a "minister not of the letter but of the spirit", and the whole of his activity lay "in newness of spirit". Without conjecturing what he might have been on another soil or of another stock--a type of guesswork always futile in history--we have to recognize the... immense spiritual wealth that lay ready to his hand.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.

The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.