All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.