A quote for Friday

If I have one regret (leaving aside a thousand failings as a person, husband, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend — and my lazy, slapdash, selfish attitude as an actor) it would be that I didn’t take the decision to become a Catholic in my early twenties. That would have sorted out a lot of my life and sweetened it. (p. 560)

— Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography

Hat tip to the Curt Jester

Quote of the Day

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

- L.M. Montgomery

(And somehow related to the family motto.)

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

- Herman Melville