Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

There is no better way to live God’s way than to have His Word in your heart and mind.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

I've hung out with Jay-Z a couple of times, and he was awesome.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.