"If age was temperature, You'd be getting hotter Happy 60th degree You, hot shotter"

“But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in piles on my desk, they stack behind me on my shelves, they surprise me every time I look for one and find ten more I had forgotten about. I love their covers, their weight and their substance. And like the child I was, with the key to the world that reading gave me, it is still exciting for me to find a new book, open it at the first page and plunge in, head first, heart deep.”

“When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.”

“The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East”

“Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.”

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.”

“The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.”

Source : Thomas Dubay (1997). “Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment”, p.132, Ignatius Press