"There are three kinds of pipe. There is what you have, which is garbage and you can see where that's gotten you. There is brass, which is very good as long as nothing goes wrong. . . . and something always goes wrong. And then there's copper, which is the only pipe I use. It costs money. It costs money because it saves you money."


-----Cosmo, from "Moonstruck"

"I may not always wear the right trousers but I can play that steel guitar and make you cry."


-----Daniel Lanois

Quotation for Tuesday, April 22, 2003:

"No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home, but the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us: it is the very sign of His presence."

-----C.S. Lewis, "The Problem of Pain"

"The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything." --C.S. Lewis

"It has been well said that no [individual] ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a [person] can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present." --George MacDonald