It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Our United States "State religion" has become Secular Humanism which has no "separation from the State.

the song of the deadheavy as rain on the wide banana leaveshard as drums

The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society

I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

There shall be no slavery of the mind.