Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

Your thoughts create your reality and you can chose the quality and the type of reality you experience every day by guarding your mind and only allowing the right input.

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

Any person that says, "Of course I wouldn't do ______" doesn't know their own heart.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.

All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.