Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

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.

O world, that's you!You are but a widened place in the riverWhere Life looks down and we rejoice for herMirrored in us, and so we dreamAnd turn away

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

The willow tree plays the water like a harp.