The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

My heart is my heavenly home.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.

Do you really think he untied you? .. He was just checking his kids handiwork.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.