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History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
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Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.
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I want a formal apology from the mayor.
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I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
