There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your Lord's command, Assist our song; For else the theme Too high doth seem For mortal tongue. Ye blessed souls at rest, Who ran this earthly race, And now, from sin released, Behold the Saviour's face, God's praises sound, As in his sight, With sweet delight, Ye do abound. Ye saints, who toil below, Adore your heavenly King. And onward as ye go Some joyful anthem sing; Take what he gives And praise him still, Through good or ill, Who ever lives! My soul, bear thou thy part, Triumph in God above: And with a well-tuned heart Sing thou the songs of love! Let all thy days Till life shall end, Whate'er he send, Be filled with praise.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.

The 50-50-90 rule: Any time you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon of sombre sky On Friday, clamour and display Smote Him; no solitude had He. No silence, since Gethsemane. Public was death; but power, but might, But life again, but victory, Were hushed within the dead of night, The shuttered dark, the secrecy. And all alone, alone, alone He rose again behind the stone.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.