She did pray, but she also remembered her mother's favorite aphorism: God helps those who help themselves.

One of his favorite aphorisms is from the physicist Richard Feynman, on how to deal with certain difficult problems: "We ignore them, temporarily."

That was one of Ryan's favorite aphorisms.

His own favorite aphorism is, "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

AS noted in this column just a few days ago, the phrase "all politics is local" has been a favorite American aphorism for about a century.

He describes it with one of his favorite aphorisms about the futurist class - that they count "one, two, three, one million."

And then her favorite aphorism: "All square feet are not created equal."

"If the hometown is secure, then the homeland is secure," he said, repeating a favorite aphorism.

One of his mother's favorite aphorisms drifted through his head.

Moses' favorite aphorism was, "If the ends don't justify the means, what does?"