Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

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.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

Why be timid? Death is coming.

Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

Limit love and you limit life.