Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf A sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, Wolf! Wolf! and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: Pray, do come and help me, the Wolf is killing the sheep, but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.

says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. Life is supplied with a basic adequacy... The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. Many Christians are Christians in their actions -- they don't lie, steal, commit adultery, or get drunk; but they react badly to what happens to them: they react in anger, bad temper, self-pity, jealousy, and envy... When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.