A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 The Christian's life is lived in the open, not in a pious cubby-hole. As Christ gives Himself to feed us, so we have to incarnate something of His all-loving, all-sacrificing soul. If we do not, then we have not really received Him. That is the plain truth. It has been said that there are many ways and degrees of receiving the Blessed Sacrament. It really depends on how wide we open our hearts. A spiritually selfish communion is not a communion at all.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher-that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos will be seen.

Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.