Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.