I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540 To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our honor therein, Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou These rural latches to his entrance open, Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, I will devise a death as cruel for thee As thou art tender to't.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Prosperity makes few friends.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?