God is best known in not knowing him.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

Everybody sung in my family.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.