Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709 If you here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor through inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The king reigns but does not govern.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

After the birth of their child, an Episcopal priest, wearing his clerical collar, visited his wife in the hospital. He greeted her with a hug and a kiss, and gave her another hug and kiss when he left. Later, the wife's roommate commented: "Your pastor is sure friendlier than mine.".

The forehead is the gate of the mind.

...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.

The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of communion. First, the creature's profound sense of need, of incompleteness: its steadfast desire... Next, a humble and loving acceptance of God's answer to that prayer of desire, however startling, disappointing, and unappetizing it may be.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.