There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness, ’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.

Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.

There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

You don't look so hot, Adrien." "Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day." His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell me about it.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.