Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.
Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel.
“Being on the inside could be an addiction”
“It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.”
“He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.”
“They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.”
“In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.”
“In a crisis, time was always the enemy.”
“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. ”
“I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.”
“He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”
“ The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expresse...”
“Its as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”