Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.

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.

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

I will make you a fisher of men

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.