When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.

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 there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.