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• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
  -- Will Roge...
• In the begining, God created the Earth and he said, "Let there be mud.
  And there was mud. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what we have done....
• There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
  If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now...
• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
  -- William Hazli...
• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know mot merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.
  There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted...
• We call our dog Egypt, because in every room he leaves a pyramid.