There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.