High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. Statesman rise and fall on the smallest of actions. Income-tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. Fear and' hope are alike underneath.
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence.
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved - Barbara Johnson 45. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.- Joseph Sobran 47. In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.