We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

I love you till kingdom come, evergreen.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.