A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
A covetous man's penny is a stone.
If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.
You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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