Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

The belly is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Christ says that not alone in the Church is there forgiveness of sins, but that where two or three are gathered together in His name they shall have the right to promise to each other comfort and the forgiveness of sins.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.

There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. There cherries grow that none may buy, Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

That which costs little is less valued.