A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

If I had to choose a moment in time when I knew my life would be different going forward—when I knew I would be different—this would be it.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you