The organization therefore needed a set of internal rationalizations that would allow it to trust a man who, while he knew little, was entirely confident of his own gut instincts and reflexive opinions, however frequently they might change.

Expertise was the last refuge of liberals, ever defeated by the big picture.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

So when the night overshadowed him, he saw a star. He said: Is this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I love not the setting ones.

This means that advancement, progress, and development in your life do not come from man's doing but from God's. Jesus

They both believed that the enemy of better is best, and the tomb of the extra-ordinary is the ordinary.

The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in God, and our faith in God ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes. —Hudson Taylor