The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

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.

It is in vain to try and kick the wind.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

Then I went to the morgue and saw that those bones weren't yours, heard your voice again in my head" -his eyes closed- "and once more, nothing else mattered.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.