He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.