A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you.

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

Be your own solace

If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.