ON HUMILITY
   To err is human, to moo bovine.

For the love of the Lord God, give us a pair of slave women as
alms, because we are spending the pittance we have entirely on hired
girls.
        --An abbess to the queen of Portugal, 1500s

- You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.

Some congressmen are so upset about how much the
government pays farmers not to grow wheat, that
they want more money not to accept bribes. 

A wedding.  A handshake.  A kiss.  A coronation.  A parade.  A
dance.  A meal.  A graduation.  A Mass.  A ritual is the performance
of an intuition, the rehearsal of a dream, the playing of a game.
        A sacrament is the breaking through of the sacred into the
profane, a ritual is the ceremonial acting out of the profane in oder
to show forth its sacredness.  
        A sacrament is God offering his holiness to men, a ritual is
men raising up the holiness of their humanity to God.
        --Frederick Buechner