Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.

Now is the time to recall the enthusiasm of our first fervor, the determination to offer ourselves unreservedly, and at the same time to let go of the craving for emotional consolation,

It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion grow within us. We need a sustained effort to cultivate such positive qualities.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

The people are going to speak. I'm not going to have people who say, 'You can't do this, you can't do that'. I'm going to fight for the taxpayers like I always have.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.