The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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.

What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

If you think too much heaven within your mind, you may have no time for simple things in this life.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Strength and struggle travel together.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.