O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

I am a defender of the Tea Party.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.

If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

This dance is the joy of existence.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.