When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive. To take the widow Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril; And hardly shall I carry out my side, Her husband being alive.

Please Note: "Ouch" is not a term used in Judo.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.

We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

he/she will be sorry.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 All angels, all saints, all the devils, all the world shall know all the deeds that ever thou didest, though thou have been shriven of them and contrite. But this knowledge shall be no shame to thee if that thou be saved, but rather a witness to God -- right as we read of the deeds of Mary Magdalene [as] her witness to God and not to her reproof. ... Middle English Sermons July 20, 2002 Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 Our union with God -- his presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized -- consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as his friend and colaborer in the affairs of the kingdom of the heavens.