Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. Anne Frank -John B. Sheerin.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

making a decision is easy: when the difference is big you know what to chose, and when the difference is small, it does not really matter what you chose.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

The king reigns but does not govern.

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639 There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.

In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.