The real challenge is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.

When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, Between two blades, which bears the better temper, Between two horses, which doth bear him best, Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

Lord, be merciful, shut me up when my life speaks so much louder than my words.

No fool can be silent at a feast.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The subject of our watch.

This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

There is no one greater than the onewho realizes and admits his own mistake.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

The Aethiop The purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

if you expect to soar with the eagles during the day, you can't hoot with the owls at night.

Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.