You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.

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.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.