Quotes from Bill Vaughan

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.