“You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.”

We are never content with our lot.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

By the work one knows the workman.

We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

I bend and do not break.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you’ll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you’ve been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.

You know what I hate? Indian givers… no, I take that back.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we’re abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.

I feel like I was supposed to be born in the ’90s. Everything from that era needs to come back.

There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he’s tested. When a person gets up and says ‘I can still do it’, he’s a champion.

She fades away falls behind the curtain of the night and retreats beyond the darkness as though she is gone for good. Yet, she always returns. And so does, love.