* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Water is the best of all things.

Learn what you are and be such.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

May you find grace and strength to achieve all the good things your faith prompts you to do.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

I love having a little bit of bronzer of some sort and I love looking golden.

I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.