Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.

Every madman thinks all other men mad.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

You can't step twice into the same river.

Karl Marx's Mother: If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it ... it would have been much better.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

And oft the pangs of absence to remove By letters, soft interpreters of love.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.

No matter how pretty she is , someone, somewhere is tired of her crap.

Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240 If 'religion' is understood... as man's search for God on man's own terms, as his effort to make some kind of adjustment to the 'ground of being' on a level less radical than that of the self-forgetful commitment of faith, it clearly can become faith's greatest enemy, the last bastion of human pride to hold out against God. The experience of the Jews in relation to Jesus, and of the churches throughout the ages, demonstrates that this is the most persistent and far-reaching temptation which confronts men. To call attention to this is always an urgently necessary part of the prophetic ministry within the Church.

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.