Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.