Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

A precious pair of brothers .

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089 The great danger facing all of us... is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all -- not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God -- and be content to have it so -- that is the danger: that some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and have really missed life itself. For life without God, to one who has known the richness and joy of life with Him, is unthinkable, impossible. That is what one prays one's friends may be spared -- satisfaction with a life that falls short of the best, that has in it no tingle or thrill that comes from a friendship with the Father.

When God's green grows it's rarely in rows Awry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.

Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

Age is only a number.

Looking back, may I be filled with gratitude; Looking forward, may I be filled with hope; Looking upward, may I be aware of strength; Looking inward, may I find peace.......