It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

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.

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

We need people interested, otherwise literally the lights turn off.

It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me.

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new