Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

You can work to create a bright future.

He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

You can be a mother and still be completely sexy.

Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.