Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Peace is a two way road of conflict and compromise.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue, With tints of rainbow hue Mocking the sunset skies.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882 If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts. Our hearts are closed, for they have already been given to another.

He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, surely I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.