If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny but are immature and tasteless that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.