Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.

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.

Today—be the white clouds full of dreams and hopes in someone’s sky.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Opportunity has power over all things.

Carlisle: "I've seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome."

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

We must never shed tears That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.