"Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror."

“I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.”

“Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives.”

Source : "The Anatomy of Courage". Book by Charles Wilson, 1945.

“Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.”

“There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!”

“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”

“There are certain relationships that just don't fit into "good" or "bad"; they transcend it.”

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“The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.”

“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”

Source : Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam