If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.

Juan de la Cruz

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Christiaan Barnard

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Jerry Doyle

I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell.

Harry S Truman

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.

Richard Aldington

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Adolf Galland

Nature is perfect.

William Shatner

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Friedrich A. Hayek

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Josh Billings

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette, The Pure and the Impure