The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.

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 looks outside dreams

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

The life of music is bigger than all of us.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

Her sunny side was always up.

Denser cities are smarter and more productive