My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.

The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its internal concerns before its apostolate, its rituals before its ministry. Undue emphasis on the static structure of the Church has led to the disappearance of a significant lay ministry in denominational Protestantism.

All German cities are blind, Nurnberg alone sees with one eye.

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

No man is hurt but by himself.

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Poverty is no sinne.

Our arms are the only ones God has to hug His children.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

The Light that Failed.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.