The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. That indeed would be my definition of God: God is He with whom we have ultimately to do, the final reality to which we have to face up, and with whom we have, in the last resort, to reckon.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well, but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

The only one who can beat me is me.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.