Murphy's Law isn't recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.

I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others

Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart. ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.

Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564 On the Brink of Death. Now hath my life across a stormy sea Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall Of good and evil for eternity. Now know I well how that fond phantasy Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall Of earthly art, is vain; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed, What are they when the double death is nigh? The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest My soul that turns to His great love on high, Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

The wildest colts only make the best horses.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.