History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
God seems to have the receiver off the hook.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
If you want a thing done, go - if not, send.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.
I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.
China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Jesus was born on a bank holiday and died on a bank holiday. We can therefore assume that when he returns again it will also be on a bank holiday.