The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
BILL VAUGHANThe real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
BILL VAUGHANI’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
BILL VAUGHANThe mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
BILL VAUGHANOne of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
BILL VAUGHANWhen it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
BILL VAUGHANThere is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
BILL VAUGHANMeditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
BILL VAUGHANThe pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
BILL VAUGHANO hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
BILL VAUGHANDark windows are often a very clear proof.
BILL VAUGHANho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
BILL VAUGHANAt bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
BILL VAUGHANThey give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
BILL VAUGHANWhere are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
BILL VAUGHANMuscles come and go; flab lasts.
BILL VAUGHANMost people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
BILL VAUGHAN