Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self loathing.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 Another criterion was loyalty to the community of Christ both as gathered congregation and as organized church. The pride of spiritual gifts had led the Corinthians to jealousy and strife. They had divided into factions owning the leadership, one of Paul, one of Apollos, another of Cephas, and another of Christ -- but such factions, the apostle tells them, were not characteristics of the "spiritual", but of the carnal. To divide the Church was to destroy the temple of God, where the Holy Spirit dwelt among them (I Cor. 3:1, 3, 16). And the very gifts about which they quarreled should have been a power to unite them, for they all proceeded from one and the same Spirit, from one and the same Lord, from one and the same God, who worketh all in all. The Spirit was indeed the principle of unity in the Church, "for in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body" (I Cor. 12:13). Therefore, to divide the Church was to drive away the Spirit... The tests of spiritual phenomena in the life of the community, and the proofs that they were of the Holy Spirit, were unity, order, and edification. [Continued tomorrow].

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquaintance with clerical life has led me to think that almost any company of clergymen gathering together and talking freely to one another will express opinions which would greatly surprise and at the same time relieve the congregations who ordinarily listen to these ministers.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.

One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs.