It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Success comes in cans, not can't s.

Trust is like money; you spend it, you save it, you lend it, and sometimes you get robbed.

Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Bear one another's burdens.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

I was born at night, but not last night.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here: Man is inherently good. Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government. Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place. The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects. The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions. As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule. In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict. The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

Our federal Union: it must be preserved.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... .

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

A crier of green sauce.