He knew everything when he started. The others can’t ever learn what he was born with.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...