Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.
I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.
One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.
Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.
SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.
People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.
Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.