The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.