What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.

Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955 Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly devoted to God.

Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

Old Simon the cellarer keep a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373 When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.'.

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pains in Hell... and in Earth -- death and the rest -- and by itself, sin, we would rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain that is not sin. To me was shown no harder hell than sin.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

When there's nothing on TV, most people will watch it anyway.

A signature always reveals a man's character... and sometimes even his name.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.