When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

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.

I don’t know what it means to live.

Some of The Best Writers in The World Died Penniless.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had adifferent word for burger flipping

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

I'm scared of needles.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.