The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Nancy D. Solomon

As for meditation, I would like you to be a disciple of prayer, because without prayer there is no habitual union with God. You need a type of prayer which is suited to your temperament, your situation, your inner inclination, consequently, your heart. Speak simply and candidly to our Lord as with another self, as with your sister. Be a child who is full of love and surrendered to her good maker. Let it be an interior conversation with God more than a work of the mind. Then, a scattered, distracted meditation will come together, because it will express all the thoughts and needs of your heart.

Peter Julian Eymard, counseling

Have nuts and be nuts.

Criss Jami

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

William Hazlitt

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Glenda Jackson

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Molly Ivins

Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.

C.S. Lewis

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Mind

I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us -- dollars and all.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Those who invoke Secular tyranny in contrast to religion are hoping that we will forget two things: the connection between the Christian churches and fascism, and the capitulation of the churches to National Socialism.

Christopher Hitchens

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Ashley Montagu

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci