Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Epictetus

The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.

Wilfred Sellars, Philosophy and

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Health is my expected heaven.

John Keats

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Mary Roach

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Horace

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk

You will care much less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

Oscar Wilde

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Charles Montesquieu

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Giacomo Casanova

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Robert Sheckley