There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

How very wet this water is.

I'm adaptable. A nomad, my mom always says." Zoe raised an eyebrow. "Your mom?" "Well I wasn't spawned.

He who is contented is rich.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.