A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.

I will stay faithful to what God has called me to do all the days of my life, and I don't try to figure it out.

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.