The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

The Greek words recorded in the Gospels when Jesus died, translated in English as "It is finished" were the same words used in bills of sale and meant "paid in full.

As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

What makes life worth living is the mutual enrichment of people through understanding, intelligence and affection. It is just here that our awareness that Jesus is our contemporary and that Calvary is relevant to our present human situation ought to help us greatly. And that is not merely because in his relationships with others during his earthly life in Palestine Jesus exemplified all that I have tried to say about human relationships. In every genuine human encounter with another person we may become aware of Jesus, and meet with him. This may sound fanciful, but there is much in the Scriptures and in Christian experience which suggests that Jesus is frequently met in the traffic of person with person, provided that there is a genuine encounter between them. Jesus himself showed that for this to happen demands courage and a willingness to move from a life that is centred in itself. So if we are to pass out of that lonely world of isolation then we must be prepared to take the risks that are always involved when we allow persons to confront us as persons and do not regard them as things. Yet, dangerous though it may be to live in this way, it is the only way to live.

Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.