I go to Washington, D.C., to work and come home at every opportunity.

He moved through life with measured steps, never hurried, though always surrounded by demands and crowds.

The quality of a person's leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right",we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Wanting to steer toward great outcomes is noble. But trying to control the world is disastrous. In time, controllers crack under the reality that none of us are in control.

It is a fact too little known, but as far as I am concerned undeniable, that Providence has a great sense of humor, and of course, the best!

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.