The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.

The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

All's fair in love and war.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.