"Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best."

“When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.”

“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”

Source : "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 375, 1678.

“The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks”

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”

“Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of one thing I am sure: I am sure that I fought not only for what I earnestly believed to be right but for the truest kind of religious freedom intended by the First Amendment the complete separation of church and state.”

“He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.”

“The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.”

“Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.”

Source : 1991 A Devious Dictionary.