It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

Don't love just for beauty, love to make her beautiful.

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped- on world, you have to be sure of yourself.

Is it not meningitis?

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

I have a clear conscience.