I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

Someone was going to die

She'd taken one look at him the first time they'd met and it was like her body had just erupted into a ball of heat and hunger.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.