If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.