God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love.

I was in love once and I am in love now… but luckily with the same person

Let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

GSP is good, but don't get me wrong he better stay at 170 with the other midgetts.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.