Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

The road to success is always under construction.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.

...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

Planning to stay on your leash, wolf? Or would you rather let loose?

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.