Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Sylvester Stallone

Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.Culpam poena premit comes

Horace

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is itself to succumb to the violence of our times. Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

Eric Davis

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Henry David Thoreau

AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??

Ezra Pound

Love lodged in a woman's breast, Is but a guest

Henry Wotton, Sr.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

Bob Dylan

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Berkeley Breathed

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr