We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Bashar al-Assad

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

George Murray

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Edin

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Helen Gahagan

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

Leap, and the net will appear.

Julie Cameron

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

W. H. Auden

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Patricia MacLachlan

The '60s were an amazing time.

Peter Max

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Edward Thorndike