No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.

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.

Trauma is personal.

Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.

If the day comes when our descendants can venture with wonder into chestnut forests, we will have gained back more than a perfect tree. We will have gained a new reason for hope.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.