Children are a gift from God.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Life is all about endurance.

We know how to read traffic lights, but what don't you know how to read spiritual signs?

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.