Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

When Christ is the center of your focus, all else will come into proper perspective.

Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

No God, no peace; know God, know peace.

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.

I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?