Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work diligently and build one for himself thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Laughter is day and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both more bewitching than either.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.