When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.