A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.

Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.

It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Events are less important than our response to them.