It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

Everything can be improved.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye

We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

When we're each aware of our own Magnificence, we don't feel the need to control others, and we won't allow ourselves to be controlled.

I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.

I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

The fat you eat, is the fat you wear.

Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.