Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

The pain of running relieves the pain of living.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

To become immortal, and then to die.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Every person has God-given gifts; when you're using those gifts in your life then you're fulfilling your purpose, and that is beautiful.