For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .

Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.

Nature is not human hearted.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.