We tend to become like those whom we admire.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted ‘The family that prays together stays together.

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Wonderful, glorious things are in store for you if you will only believe, obey, and endure.

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.

There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

It hard to stop the person determined to press onwards.

It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.

I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.