Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.

Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural. * HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

There is a stone there, That whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses To grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber To a lady's chamber Or become a member Of Parliament.

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 "The clergy," says Canon Rhymes, "are called to give to the laity the benefit of their theological understanding and so help them to account for and understand the faith which is in them." But surely there is no point in trying to account for faith: the moment it is accounted for rationally, it is no longer faith. Those whose hearts are filled with the Christian spirit... are best left to proclaim the Gospel in their own words and, above all, through the example of their own lives.

We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

l'etat, c'est moi.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or our worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter worthlessness can be a source of courage.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.