Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Be who you are and be that well.

But that's the thing about fate. It comes whether you're ready for it or not.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.