As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Much matter decocted into few words.

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

By labor fire is got out of stone.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea, into which the more I enter the more I find, and the more I find the more I seek. The soul cannot be satiated in your abyss, for she continually hungers after you, the eternal Trinity, desiring to see you with the light of your light. As the hart desires the springs of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see you in truth.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Evil thoughts often come from idleness.

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.