I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Peace is more of an internal settlement in Nigeria rather than what is visible on the external hardship we face in the country.

I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

What do you think you're doing?

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.

What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.