Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

Do you know yourself?.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

We need to embrace the differences between our cultures and love them.