And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

It is enough to know, too much to see

A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners.

Nature like man sometimes weeps for gladness.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.