Every man's life is a plan of God.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

We are nothing if we walk alone we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.