We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.