They that sow in tears shall reap joy. .

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833 The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.

The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Memories last forever, never do they die, Friends stick together and never really say Goodbye.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,-- I am perplext, and often stricken mute. Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

To teach is to learn twice.