It is amazing how the light can make us forget we were ever afraid of the dark.

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.

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.

It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.