And so never ending, But always descending.

Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things.

The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.

One may be humble out of pride.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

God didn't promise us it would be easy or painless; He just promised us it would be worth it!

Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away, While thou must toil to gain a flight, And spread those pinions grey, But when they once are fairly poised, Far o'er each chirping thing Thou sailest wide to other lands, E'en sleeping on the wing.

The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow maples.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

God loves everyone, but probably prefers "fruit of the Spirit" over "religious nuts!".

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!