So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Nothing is as soft as water, yet who can withstand the raging flood?

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.

Contemplating this blighted and sinister career, the lesson is burnt in upon the conscience, that since Judas by transgression fell, no place in the Church of Christ can render any man secure. And since, falling, he was openly exposed, none may flatter himself that the cause of Christ is bound up with his reputation, that the mischief must needs be averted which his downfall would entail, that Providence must needs avert from him the natural penalties for evil-doing. Though one was as the signet upon the Lord's hand, yet was he plucked thence. There is no security for any soul except where love and trust repose, upon the bosom of Christ. Now if this be true, and if sin and scandal may conceivably penetrate even the inmost circle of the chosen, how great an error it is to break, because of these offenses, the unity of the Church, and institute some new communion, purer far than the Churches of Corinth and Galatia, which were not abandoned but reformed, and more impenetrable to corruption than the little group of those who ate and drank with Jesus.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

You can choose your friends and you can chose your enemies, but you can't chose family!

Youth is wasted on the young.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. -Henri-Frederic Amiel.