Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Prayer is speaking to God— but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

How boring just to be a body.