Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Faith is always about the Future.

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.