Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady: Red for the five Wounds of her Son.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

I think temperament is my single greatest asset.

I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.