Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Love is the unity of two hearts beating together as one.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace... [Continued tomorrow].

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?

It is impossible to overestimate the immense need that humans have to be listened to, understood, and taken seriously.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.

You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.