I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
And where the deepest current crawls Like thistledown the dainty fly falls. Then from the depths a silver gleam Quick flashes, like a jewel bright. Up through the waters of the stream An instant visible to sight As lightning cleaves to sombre sky A rainbow rises to the fly.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.