New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.