Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

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 happens when you get lost in a dream.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.