He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
