Productive prayer requires earnestness not eloquence.

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.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

I'd rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.