"Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute."

“The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.”

“To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.”

“Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.”

“The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.”

Source : "Representatives knock Sen. Saxby Chambliss' comments on sexual assault" by Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2013.

“The more passions you have the happier you'll be”

“Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.”

“Clothes are incredibly symbolic.”

“The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.”

Source : Maurice Francis Egan (1922). “Confessions of a Book-lover”