By the time a man realises that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.

Mine's not an idle cause.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives, Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on; Till one calls him, who varies not his call, But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound, Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free; A freedom far less welcome than this chain.

Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The Spirit of Christ can set men free, and can enable them to become their true selves, without requiring their dependence on any particular religious organization.

Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 There is a cowardice in this age which is not Christian. We shrink from the consequences of truth. We look round and cling dependently. We ask what men will think; what others will say; whether they will not stare in astonishment. Perhaps they will; but he who is calculating that, will accomplish nothing in this life. The Father -- the Father which is with us and in us -- what does He think? God's work cannot be done without a spirit of independence. A man is got some way in the Christian life when he has learned to say, humbly yet majestically, "I dare to be alone.".

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.

Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on, Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.