He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

In the end, we serve, the Saviour, who saved us from death to life.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Those trees seem to grow every year.

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.