Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

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.

Who would have ever thought going to a library would be so scary?

I will rather be poor doing what I love, than to be rich hating what I do.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

And what is impossible to science?

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.