Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s the record.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.