Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

When kings are building, draymen have something to do.

Enough ants can eat an elephant.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.

Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM". "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.

Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. Fortify the nature you have created, with gifts so flowing with honey that, from intense joy in your sweetness, it may despise and reject all which is in this world, that it may accept spiritual gifts, and through melodious jubilation, it may entirely melt in holy love, reaching out for uncircumscribed Light.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.

Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.