No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.
Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.
I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.
I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding.
We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.
I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.