If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?

He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.

Others have done it before me. I can, too.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

Borrow money from pessimists.They don't expect it back.

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

"Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors."