How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.