If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

There is no one anywhere as available to everyone everywhere as is God.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.

The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world

Stretch your mind and be very kind. Stress will melt away and life will be fine.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

I don't really listen to any of the gossip.

Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.