The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.

Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Stoners make the best cryptologists, I know because i've written some kickass shit and the next day there was no way could I figure out what the hell I did.

Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation.

Lady Conductor She raised her baton.... and Beethoven answered John C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

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

I've had an ear full.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.