Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.