God helps those who help themselves.

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.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

I miss dating only for that final moment you kiss goodnight, watch her get out of your car and run into the police station.

I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.