The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Devotional poetry... has to do with devotedness, with trust merged into faith, with love's steadfastness. It finds men's worthwhileness deep laid in relationship to God's worthwhileness, and this devotion is expressed in communication. It finds this world precious insofar as it... symbolizes God's love and therefore it runs counter to our national sin of distrust in God. (And yet, how can we trust Him without knowing and living unto Him and loving Him?).

Give love, and love to your life will flow.

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country .

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

[At the Garden of Olives Monastery] "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice. "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers." "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?" "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".

Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto you to fill it.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!

A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .

Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.