O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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.

I never enjoyed being famous.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.