We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, " said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

That which we call death, is but the other side of life.