All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

I knew I wasn't the person to play Ponyboy because I'm a girl, but without knowing it, I understand that was a place I could put all the stuff that I was feeling.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.