God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

We, human beings, are strong because we are capable of change .

I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

It is a lie that America is racist

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.