"He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable."

-- Horace

“Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.”
“It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.”
“When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.”
“The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.”
“One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.”
“But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'”

Source : Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.8, SPCK
“I really took the lead on putting together the real estate fund-to-funds. Real estate was always interesting to me.”
“Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.”

Source : "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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