Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.

The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.