True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.

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.

Live for today with love and kindness. Live profoundly for tomorrow is promised to no one.

Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

Tell them to stand closer apart.

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?