Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want. -Sue Bender.

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.

Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe, that perish with our breath, Out of our lips that have not kissed the rod. They shall not live who have not tasted death. They only sing who are struck dumb by God.

Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

If you can keep your head while all about are losing theirs and blaming it on you - perhaps you have underestimated the seriousness of the situation.

Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself

A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.