So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.