These were honoured in their generations and were the glory of the times.

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.

If he were to look up at her now, he’d know exactly how stupid she was. She couldfeel her face go soft and gummy. If Park were to look up at her now, he’d know everything.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California.

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.