Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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.

An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.