When my wife was asked "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered "For richer."

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.

Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to yourself so you hurt fewer people. You're supposed to pay with guilt. Guilt is penance.

Within every little dream seed is the potential viability of sprouting to becoming a great forest.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.