Visitors come and go.Daily I read tea leaves for signsof the approaching century:a raven perched on a crossa sword piercing a cloud--A Victorian Life

If there's one thing I've still got, it's my memory. Which is too bad. Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.