For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

Whether it's something that happened twenty years ago or only yesterday I must start out with an emotion, one that's close to me and that I can understand.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.