Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Cheerleaders are simultaneously everything that is right and wrong with the world.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.