Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

When I was young, I believed God was a woman because I couldn't come up with any other explanation as to why the universe was so tidy.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.