Reform, that we may preserve

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think

Baseball is a mirror of life, reflecting our triumphs and failures.

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other menfir

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’

The shortest way to drive yourself mad is to refuse to be swayed by hope or fear

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

I refuse to grow up. I won’t become the adult guy.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.