Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

He talked with more claret than clarity

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.

A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.

Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.