Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.
While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?
Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.
TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.
