A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

What will life be without music?

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.