"I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination."

“A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.”

Source : Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

“It's the process, not the result.”

“I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.”

“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.”

Source : "The Military Quotation Book". Book by James Charlton (p. 114), 2002.

“All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.”

“I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues.”

“I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.”

“One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it’s all true that they’re willing to go the ultimate mile?”

Source : "A Double Take on Early Christianity". Interview with Mike Aquilina, touchstonemag.com. January 2000.