'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.

the blackberry bees reorchestrate their chant.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Don't measure your life by how many breaths you take, measure it by how many times you get your breath taken away.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

Hatred -- The anger of the weak.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Trust not thy feeling, for whatever it be now, it will quickly be changed.

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties we find so alluring, but rather to be enabled to continue them without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favour, so that we can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have sown; because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the good news our Lord brings is the (to us) gladsome announcement that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely let us off -- because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.

And feet like sunny gems on an English green.

Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.