It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain. - Sarah Williams ,

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

The end must justify the means.

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise, Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.]

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong; No longer wilt thou love me,-- Thy letter, though is long.

Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all small stuff.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting -- it has been found demanding, and not tried.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.