Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

life is a dream

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

Be reckless in your intensities.

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.

What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.