"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

-Sun Tzu

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."


-Buddha

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."

- Lao Tzu

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

-Maya Angelou

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

-William Shakespeare

Mahatma Gandhi's 7 Deadly Sins:

Pleasure without conscience

Knowledge without character

Commerce without morality

Science without humanity

Worship without sacrifice

Politics without principle

Wealth without work

"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all."

- Oscar Wilde

"Hate the sin and love the sinner."


- Garry Gamble

"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation."

-WH Auden

"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation."

-WH Auden

"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."

- Frederick Buechner

"Few Sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."

-Mark Twain

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."
~P.D. James

"The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory."
~Author Unknown

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-Albert Einstein

"Happiness depends on ourselves."
-Aristotle

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality i accept."
-Calvin and Hobbes

"The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
-Sean O'Casey

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
-WC Fields
(from the clearly busy team at Reuters)