Everything is meaningless

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.

Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn’t have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth.

Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve?

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Where the terror is, you must go.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.