He (God) loves what I shall be.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.

The Church is a perpetual construction site.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.