Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend

Sometimes I am still surprised that I'm a model and that people think I'm good-looking.

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.