Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

I've that within for which there are no plasters.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

it is much safer to obey than to rule.

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833 We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another. ... St. Basil the Great January 3, 1998 Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.

Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife, Who has no will but by her high permission; Who has not sixpence but in her possession; Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.

Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.

Poverty is the worst form of death.