No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion

This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

When you look at our trade deals that are so bad. Our debt has doubled in seven and a half years to almost $20 trillion, under [Barack] Obama.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.