Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

If you think it's going to rain it will.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

For me, skinny is just a style of jeans -- not a goal.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day.