The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.

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.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man

don't live to regret the things you never said

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.