I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader....Let us become a real servant instead.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.