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I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G. K. Chesterton

Faith is the ability to not panic

You can’t tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Will Rogers

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The Christian life is the only true adventure

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of heaven, there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

Have confidence in God’s mercy, for when you think He is a long way from you, He is often quite near. Thomas Kempis

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” C. S. Lewis

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

“What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.” Meister Eckhart

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” C. S. Lewis

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”

Albert Schweitzer

“We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.” John Churtom Collins

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things.

John Burroughs

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

“It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor, on the jury used for her assault trial.

“They are not jackbooted Nazi thugs. They are merely German policemen in spiffy uniforms here to help us.”

“In a sense it’s a one-man show… except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.”

John Motson, BBC1

“A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.”

Samuel Goldwyn

“Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.”

Yogi Berra, Baseball player

“I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.”

Ron Atkinson

“Man Breaks Leg In Fall Off Bride.”

St. Louis Dispatch Headline (should have read “bridge.”)

“I said LUNCH not LAUNCH!!!!”

Nasa Launch Control

One has to expect the level of violence will either stay where it is or go up or…

Donald Rumsfeld

If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed, and it will monitor their heart through the night, and the next morning, if they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.

Mark Fowlr

“Now, the only thing that remains unresolved is the resolution of the problem.”

Thomas Wells, Ontario legislature minister

“Today is Thursday. Or what I like to call on Friday, ‘yesterday.’”

Jimmy Fallon

“Did people build this, or did Indians?”

Tourist question at Mesa Verde National Park

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

Dan Quayle

I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

Al McGuire

I’ve always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.”

Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.

“The government is not doing enough about cleaning up the environment. This is a good planet.”

Mr. New Jersey contestant when asked what he would do with a million dollars.

“I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.”

Terry Bradshaw, Former football player/announcer