God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.

God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears.

We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Most people think they are searching for truth when they are really searching for love

I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

I always tell what I see.