A closed mouth gathers no foot.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

The love of God knows no end.Lord may your boundless and unfailing love surround us.

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.