As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

Mendacity is a system that we live in, " declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

Whenever I love you, I find myself more loving.

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight?

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Without my family, I'd be something.

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.