Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

Books have their destinies.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.