The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.

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.

The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.