Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
Since therefore no man is born without faults and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city or a new love affair.
For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Power must be used but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
Make friends with the angels who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them constantly praise them and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
If you lead a country like Britain a strong country a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad a country that is always reliable then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Those disputing contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes but they never get good will which would be of more use to them.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.