My Favorite Quotes

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it. - Unknown 

Family is not who you are born with or into, but those that you choose to love and who choose to love you back. - Unknown

The Nation that makes a great distinction between scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
-Thucydides

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.--Adam Smith 

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.- Pope John Paul II 

The more a man knows, the more he forgives--Confucius

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. --CS Lewis

Life, Liberty, and Property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.-- Frederick Bastiat

Suum Cuique (To each his own.) --Cicero

They constantly try to escape 
From the darkness outside and within 
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. --TS Eliot

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.--Perelandra

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. --Martin Luther 

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor - Mother Teresa

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to whole whole world --Thomas Jefferson

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.--CS Lewis

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.-
G. K. Chesterton

Always be as wise as a snake and as harmless as a dove. Matthew 10:16

All government has a governing will, and without a will that commands, there is no government.--Orestes Brownson

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. -Sir Winston Churchill

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom. 
--2 Corinthians 3:17

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.--CS Lewis

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. 
--Tocqueville

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. --Margaret Thatcher

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. --G. K. Chesterton

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -Unknown 

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.--Tacitus 

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. --Thomas Aquinas