Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.

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.

True wisdom always leads us to please God.

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

I don't like being in houses alone.

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.