Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
My hearing loss was essentially due to noise exposure during my military service. I was on an anti-submarine sub-chaser in WWII, and we had lots of depth charges going off all around us. There were plenty of explosions, and they were loud!
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
A lot of us who've made grime might be in the chart, but that is because of the country we are in.
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
