I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Phillip E. Johnson

Opportunities are disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

It is better to run back than run the wrong way.

Proverb

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

John Cheever

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Timothy Radcliffe

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

Thomas Kempis

Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

Sara Teasdale

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mary McCarthy