Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on, 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on, Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

All learned, and all drunk!

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein.

Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 If we are traveling heavenward, we are already in heaven.

The worst prison would be a closed heart. -Unknown.

This is too much reality for a Friday.

Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.