Whole prayer is nothing but love.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.