Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

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.

Be happy and enjoy your sacred time on earth.

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been, 'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be.

The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.

Every thought you have affects everything in your body.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.