The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

the waiting is the hardest part.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

Your temper is the only thing you can lose and still have.

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.

Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833 The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.

Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.