Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

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.

Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.

Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.