You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

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.

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.