The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

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.

hello there, the angel from my nightmare.the shadow in the backgroung of the mourge.the unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley.we could live like jack and sally if we want.

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.