Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first the lesson afterwards.

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.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Love is what dreams are made of!

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.