When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

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.

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.