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This month I have chosen some relevant and humorous comments that I think you will find both enjoyable and profound:

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." - Mark Twain

"The philosophical showdown: 'Rejoice! Today is the first day of the rest of your life' versus 'Repent! This could be your last day'." - Wiley Miller in the comic strip "Non Sequitur"

"When I was younger, I thought I was going to set the world on fire! ...Somehow life took my matches away!" – Chris Browne in the comic strip "Hagar the Horrible

"The real democratic American ideal is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Perhaps it was when Nietzsche pronounced God dead that so many decided to do His job themselves.  Today, we are our own priests.  Our truths are own 'inner truths.'  Our morality is bought retail." - Jonah Goldberg

"Surely, he is the most politically incorrect leader on earth. He calls abortion a sin against God and murder of the innocent. He calls homosexuality unnatural and immoral.  He opposes all extramarital sexual relations. He is old, stooped and suffering from Parkinson's, and slurs his words. He is decried by elites as a hopeless reactionary. Yet he remains the most beloved leader on earth.... What explains the extraordinary attraction Pope John Paul II has, especially for the young? ...Clearly, it must have to do with the saintliness of the man and the strength of his message, a message at war with what the secular world teaches about how to live. The young are seeking something this man has, and the world has not.... As the world has hated me, so also it will hate you, Christ said. But in America, too many bishops and cardinals were willing to yield to the demands of the world, because they could not endure being hated by the world. But John Paul II was not among them. Apparently, he never bothered reading The New York Times.... The Church needs more brave orthodox bishops like the Bishop of Rome. Like the Marines, we need a few good men." – Pat Buchanan

"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart." - C. S. Lewis

"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." - James Madison

"There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people." - Robert Frost 

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke 

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill    

"Dollars cannot buy yesterday." - Admiral Harold R. Stark  

"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." --General Omar N. Bradley 

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:  freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope." - Sir Winston Churchill 

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher