These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Goal achievement is hero's work.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.