Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

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.

Through college she had been a feminist—basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!

All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fill your whole life with the stuff which you are accepted.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.