Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
-William Ruckelshaus
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken