It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent.

Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Belief in God through Christ is the most important of all aids to the following of Christ, but (let us never forget) the following is the great thing. To those who, by whatever means they are attracted to Him, really seek to do God's will as He revealed it, Christ will prove a Saviour -- a Saviour from sin, a Saviour from the power of sin here, and from the misery which sin brings with it here and hereafter.

They are able because they think they are able.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven.

Man was formed for society.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul's self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.