It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

The river of emotions will almost always over-run the barrage of logic.

Three wishes, to be exact. And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes.

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

Really, one has some friends, and when one comes to think about it it is impossible to tell how one ever became friendly with them.

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.