Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

A fool and his money be soon at debate

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.