It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special.

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.

Your level of neuroses will only find love in a made-for-TV movie.

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

Most things get steadily worse.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.