All the Universe is full of the life of perfect creatures.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Teresa of Avila

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

Vivienne Westwood

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

Desmond Tutu

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Stephen Covey

This act of mine may mean years of separation from your family, so you must decide quickly whether you will go north or remain here.

David G. Farragut, Said to his w

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

Eric Hoffer

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Jean Kerr

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Thomas Carlyle