When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. . . . Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
Man is not himself only. . . He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources. . . He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.