Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

There are big advantages of living for God, therefore try to spend every minute you have walking with Him, listening to Him and learning of His wisdom

She was a light from Heaven, and a beauty for all of us to behold.

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

How easy it is to be unknown!

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.