“The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.”

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.

The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.