A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Embrace adversities as the hidden treasures of life.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.

I would love to go back as Leela in this new series.

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.

Farewell, fair cruelty.